Playoff Embarrassment Must Be Lightning Tipping Point

Larry Brooks, New York Post: Sports
Sat, 04/20/2019 - 2:49pm

So the playoffs have become exactly the free-for-all the NHL has attempted to engineer for years. But it is far too easy to allow Tampa Bay and Calgary, first-seed losers, off the hook by citing some amorphous concept of randomness. Well, certainly Tampa Bay. The Flames, blitzed in five by the Avalanche despite heroics by...

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