The NHL’s proposed (but not yet approved) 24-team playoff format would pit the MapleLeafs against the BlueJacketsNHL. How do these teams, with different styles but similar results, stack up? (via lukefoxjukebox)
awake Thursday as would-be Round 1 opponents under the NHL’s proposed 24-team playoff format, and the matchup pits two clubs operating with opposite styles but similar results.
That, however, is where the similarities end and the differences begin in what is arguably the most compelling of the eight proposed play-in brackets.How’s this for a stat? The Maple Leafs havestars with a minimum of 59 points. The highest-scoring Blue Jacket, Pierre-Luc Dubois, is stuck at 49. Who cares if the Blue Jackets only had a 27.6 per cent chance of making the post-season on March 12 ? That was the old reality.
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