'NucK™ Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 6 hours ago, Filthy McNasty said: Imagine this middle of May or June hockey comes back no season, straight to playoffs, playoffs become best of 3 instead of 7 Vancouver finally wins its first cup but never respected by media or other teams for it as it Was not won traditionally like all other teams calling it now Well I wouldn't respect it either tbh.. that's why any kind of March Madness type solution is stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshhprince95 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ossi Vaananen said: Just saw TSN post Raptors players all tested negative. It'd be cool if all teams started doing that and played empty arenas. Granted, not the best use of resources nor should they really be priority. But we get hockey back sooner. Hate to say it but I think hockey is done this year. They can play in empty arenas but there are several problems to it, for example teams are still travelling city to city with a chance of contracting the disease and further spreading among players if they’re asymptotic and don’t know they have it. Even knowing early might be too late for other players in the same locker room because of how it easy it spreads. another reason is, the playoffs are a way to generate revenue. Without fans coming to the arenas a significant portion of revenue is hindered. Yes they’ll still have TV money and all that. While it may be better than 0 total profit/revenue it then becomes a question of is the benefit of having some profit over none greater than the risk by travelling and playing while there’s no vaccine or any signs of containment? The US is still in the early stages of testing and I fully expect the number of cases to rise dramatically, it only makes it harder to see a season/playoffs any time soon. this is really only the start of this virus and with no vaccines coming for another year or two cities might be on lockdown for while, unless by X date the majority of the population has already contracted the disease and recovered and therefore have built immunity to it. Edited March 16, 2020 by freshhprince95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossi Vaananen Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Russian source, seems outlandish: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 55 minutes ago, freshhprince95 said: Hate to say it but I think hockey is done this year. They can play in empty arenas but there are several problems to it, for example teams are still travelling city to city with a chance of contracting the disease and further spreading among players if they’re asymptotic and don’t know they have it. Even knowing early might be too late for other players in the same locker room because of how it easy it spreads. another reason is, the playoffs are a way to generate revenue. Without fans coming to the arenas a significant portion of revenue is hindered. Yes they’ll still have TV money and all that. While it may be better than 0 total profit/revenue it then becomes a question of is the benefit of having some profit over none greater than the risk by travelling and playing while there’s no vaccine or any signs of containment? The US is still in the early stages of testing and I fully expect the number of cases to rise dramatically, it only makes it harder to see a season/playoffs any time soon. this is really only the start of this virus and with no vaccines coming for another year or two cities might be on lockdown for while, unless by X date the majority of the population has already contracted the disease and recovered and therefore have built immunity to it. Yeah the NHL is largely still a gate driven league. The NFL might be able to get away with playing to empty arenas for example (TV contract revenue is huge for them) but not hockey imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Ossi Vaananen said: Russian source, seems outlandish: Pretty much what I was thinking makes the most sense except it would be 20 teams. Order the standings by points percentage and then have the two wildcard teams and the next two teams battle it out for the final two spots. Either a 1 game elimination or a 3 game series depending on time. That would mean in the West: Nashville vs Minnesota Calgary vs Winnipeg In the East it would be: Carolina vs Florida NYI vs Columbus Then playoffs continue like normal. Not sure how adding 8 extra teams would work because then you’d have an additional 2 teams in each conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCNeil Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Really wild one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canucks-offer-deploy-workers-short-staffed-seniors-care-homes/?fbclid=IwAR0uDMO8we9wWBX0L92Ij3YYi6SYlidA5scLsDUV9ge_5Cacqn4Hm3rpg1k 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 32 minutes ago, BCNeil said: Really wild one watch detorit go on a winning streak and win a cup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 53 minutes ago, BCNeil said: Really wild one Stupid. Why would teams that are mathematically eliminated get a chance at playoffs? Much simpler and fairer formats than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whale Tail Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) 30 minutes ago, DeNiro said: Stupid. Why would teams that are mathematically eliminated get a chance at playoffs? Much simpler and fairer formats than that. They are probably thinking the idea is to help build revenue for each team on all the missed games. Could you imagine if Detroit or someone like that pulled through and won the cup ha Edited March 16, 2020 by Whale Tail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Just now, Whale Tail said: They are probably thinking the idea is to help build revenue for each team on all the missed games. Playoff revenue is much higher and it’s not fair to the teams that have earned spots. If they want teams to recoup revenue they would have to implement some form of revenue sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whale Tail Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 minute ago, DeNiro said: Playoff revenue is much higher and it’s not fair to the teams that have earned spots. If they want teams to recoup revenue they would have to implement some form of revenue sharing. Well from that proposal all the teams currently in a playoff spot are in the 2nd round. More playoff team owners probably like this than the confirmed playoff teams sharing their $$ If anything its a little unfair to the Canucks since we had a better winning % than the Jets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whale Tail Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Actually looking at the graph I guess it’s more profitable for the teams out of a playoff spot to start at the beginning and work their way up than it is for the round 3 teams who have had a great season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCNeil Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, DeNiro said: Stupid. Why would teams that are mathematically eliminated get a chance at playoffs? Much simpler and fairer formats than that. I like the 24 team model the best, covers all the teams technically in the wild card race. Top 8 get first round bye. Keep the conferences apart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 37 minutes ago, Whale Tail said: Well from that proposal all the teams currently in a playoff spot are in the 2nd round. More playoff team owners probably like this than the confirmed playoff teams sharing their $$ If anything its a little unfair to the Canucks since we had a better winning % than the Jets. So the teams that did well miss out on a whole round of revenue? Not sure why they’d go for that. The revenue from 3 or 4 home games in the playoffs vastly outweighs the revenue from the last 5 or 6 regular season home games. Too much reward for teams that were clearly going to miss and would have had almost empty buildings anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High and Inside Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 After listening to Jay and Dan and reports saying minimum of 2 months but more then likely looking at 4-6 months before a return I think the NHL should also pull the plug on the season and turn the focus onto next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurai Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 58 minutes ago, High and Inside said: After listening to Jay and Dan and reports saying minimum of 2 months but more then likely looking at 4-6 months before a return I think the NHL should also pull the plug on the season and turn the focus onto next season. The virus may 'disappear' for a bit but it will be back in the fall - you can take that to the bank. This is what happened with SARS. People need to get used to living with this for the next few years. SARS which i went through went from Nov 2002 until July 2003. I am here in Japan and things appear to be at a manageable state ( yesterday 30 new cases and i think there may have been one death in the last 2 weeks). We have been in official shutdown for 2 weeks. Some schools are starting to go back - why cause of the burden on kids and parents. And things look to be manageable. The economy is getting slammed hard here. My friend's school starts tomorrow. The Japanese gov't identified 15 clusters here. All were live houses, drinking establishments, gyms, care facilities for elderly, and conference symposium settings. The largest infection was just over 50. The average is 10-15 ish. Gyms here are heavily used by the elderly. So not large sporting events or other events have been found to be clusters - yet. The cluster spots as you can guess share common features. People are thinking first week of April but the word on the street is that around the 3rd week of April that will mean close to 8 weeks here. Teams are still practicing here. I went to a uni game this week. I think the sports will start here in early April with no fans until later. Lastly you can have games by making the right planning refunds for people who might be sick so they don't feel they need to go Stagger arriving and leaving and using toilets extensive and sustained cleaning hand sanitizer everywhere limited food and drink sales to avoid toilet use only allow for half filled games and creating some kind of spaced sitting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackcanuck Posted March 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2020 Entering week two without TV sports. Found a lady sitting on my couch. Apparently she’s my wife. She seems nice. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FijianCanuck Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Heard on the radio that the nba likely will be back mid june the earliest. Tough for NHL to resume unless they to straight to playoffs and have shorter series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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