◽️ A shorter regular season? ◽️ Moving to a one-to-eight playoff format? ◽️ Changing the points system eduhatschek answers big-picture NHL questions from readers:
era. Realistically, most NHL players and most NHL coaches don’t have it in their DNA to just go through the motions, even with so little at stake.
The problem with your suggestion is, if you really believed that teams genuinely tank, then your suggestion would incentivize them to tank earlier in a season that seems to be slipping away. Then, when you’re in a position to start competing for No. 1, shift the focus at that point to winning.
Do you think the league will ever come to its senses and decide every loss is worth zero points, regardless of the game’s state? The loser point is ridiculous, making 20 percent of games worth three points and the rest worth two. There are reasons that comics make fun of hockey, and this is one of them. —@Bending C. The loser point is fine, if you go to the 3-2-1-0 method to accumulate points.
So, Joseph B. has essentially answered the question for Bending C. But I would agree with the starting place in his argument: The loser point is ridiculous. The fact that not all NHL games are weighted equally in the standings is a systemic flaw. Bettman has long resisted the lure of the 3-2-1-0 method, even though it’s used at the international hockey level and for sports with far more reach than the NHL .
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