Just FYI I'll be posting vbookie odds for all the CHL playoff games, hopefully tomorrows games with be up some time later tonight when the odds get posted.
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Just FYI I'll be posting vbookie odds for all the CHL playoff games, hopefully tomorrows games with be up some time later tonight when the odds get posted.
Nice!
Now for predictions.
Saint John over Cape-Breton in 4
Rouyn-Noranda over Shawinigan (maybe it's just us that they suck against, but Shawinigan isn't actually that good) in 7
Would anyone be able to tell me if there is a way I can watch the seadogs and screaming eagles game tonight? Is there a channel or a live stream online somwhere? thanks
Would anyone be able to tell me if there is a way I can watch the seadogs and screaming eagles game tonight? Is there a channel or a live stream online somwhere? thanks
If you have eastlink or rogers you might get it on their local channel. Also, there's a pay to watch telus link on their respective sites I think. Dunno about any free streams tho
Yeah, I guess we just had their number. Shawinigan didn't look like anything special whenever I saw them play, but then again, I never watched them play anyone other than Hull!
This 16-team playoff format has got to go. It's a waste of time for both the high and low seed teams. One upset isn't worth the seven blowouts.
Under the old system, we'd be playing Val-d'Or right now, instead of Boisbriand.
I love games against Val-d'Or...
Let's bring back the old(-ish) divisions next year -
Hull, Val-d'Or, Rouyn-Noranda, wherever Boisbriand decides to play
Victoriaville, Drummondville, Shawinigan, Sherbrooke
Québec, Chicoutimi, Baie-Comeau, Rimouski
The Atlantic teams
But the issue is, for playoff trees, 16 works and 8 work, but 10/12/14 all don't....
Shorten the first round to 5 games from 7, play them on an aggressive schedule like the Halifax/Moncton series (4 games in the first 5 nights) and they're over with in the first week. A 12 team tree works then. The top 4 seeds get byes.
Or just scrap the first round completely and go to 8 teams. The gap between the upper & lower seeds is just too great in this league. Last year's first round was a complete bust as well, with again just one upset in the round (which itself was a sweep) and everything else over with in 5 or less.
Fat chance, I know. The owners won't give up those playoff dates. It's a miserable excuse for playoff hockey, though.
Shorten the first round to 5 games from 7, play them on an aggressive schedule like the Halifax/Moncton series (4 games in the first 5 nights) and they're over with in the first week. A 12 team tree works then. The top 4 seeds get byes.
That Cape Breton/Rouyn-Noranda series is going to be awesome!
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Or just scrap the first round completely and go to 8 teams. The gap between the upper & lower seeds is just too great in this league. Last year's first round was a complete bust as well, with again just one upset in the round (which itself was a sweep) and everything else over with in 5 or less.
Fat chance, I know. The owners won't give up those playoff dates. It's a miserable excuse for playoff hockey, though.
Or just go back to the old system!
As has been stated before, only having to play three rounds instead of four gives the QMJHL team(s) an unfair advantage in the Memorial Cup.
The other option is to have conferences. But that wouldn't change the matchups for the two 'top' teams.
I looked at the last couple years under the old system. You trade the first-round problem for a second-round problem once you reseed the remaining teams. You get a few competitive first-round series by essentially creating 'strong' groups and 'weak' groups and playing them off in R1. The winners then all get reseeded in R2, and the 'strong' winners tend to feast on the 'weak' winners.
I guess it just is what it is. The gap between the tops & bottoms in the Q leads itself to playoff massacres. Just a matter of what round they occur in. May as well get them done with in the first.
Why not a 13 team format? Cuts down on the amount of teams a bit.
Winners of West, East, ATL, recieve byes. Ten remaining teams get reseeded (1 vs. 10, 2 vs. 9 etc..) and that leaves 5 winners. The teams that received byes then match up against the 5 first round winners making 8, then get reseeded....
This was done before, just a thought on the topic of playoff formats..
