To get it back onto hockey;
- I hate tiebreakers, and
- Related to that, I HATE the fact that the Leafs have a point even though they’ve lost every game.
The policy of giving a “point” to teams that lose overtime games is disgraceful.
Sure you don’t. If it were the Sens that were 0-6-1, I know I’d be taking every opportunity to talk about the [del]Roughriders[/del] [del]Lynx[/del] [del]Renegades[/del] [del]Rebel[/del].
With the Islanders winning tonight in a shootout, Toronto is now the last winless team in the league. And the best thing about this is that unlike in previous years, I can cheer for the Leafs to lose every game without the nagging thought that if they finish last overall they’ll actually get a draft pick that even they might not screw up.
That’s the “I’m sorry you suck more than we do” consolation point courtesy of the Habs.
Seriously, now that the leafs don’t have a 1st round draft pick they suck shit, when they do have a pick they become a playoff bubble team. I hope Burke gets screwed with his Kessel gamble and we end up getting the first overall pick so Boston can choose the pick of the draft. Perhaps the american brian burke is trying to help boston field a championship team rather than helping the leafs lol.
It’s not so much the idea of giving a point to a team that loses in OT that I hate (especially for a shootout, which is essentially a coin flip), but how that makes the standings unbalanced. All games should have the same number of points at stake.
That creates the problem, though, that I don’t like.
For instance, in 2007-2008, Carolina won more games than Boston, Philadelphia OR the Rangers, but Carolina did not make the playoffs while those three teams did. That’s just outrageous, as far as I’m concerned. It’s ludicrous that a team that won more games didn’t make the playoffs.
Of course, this is the Leafs March to 0-82 thread, and somehow I don’t think Toronto will factor into the playoff picture, but still… they should not have a point. they have lost all seven games they’ve played, so they should have no credit.
If we still had the old point system that was in use until 98-99 (no points for OT losses, one point for a tie), then the Leafs make the playoffs in both '06 (as the 6th seed!) and '07 (tied with Montreal and Atlanta for 6th/7th/8th with 83 points).
Maybe Fergie Jr. still has his job.
Does that problem still exist if you go to a 3-2-1-0 system (which is what I really mean)? I haven’t calculated to check, but it seems like that should eliminate the the team that OTLs its way into the playoffs.
If you want all games to be worth 2 points total, I’m behind that. If you want them all worth 3 points, I’m behind that too. But what I don’t want is some games worth 2 and some worth 3.
See? The OTL point is beneficial!
The triangle has more points.
The triangle at least has an edge, whereas the Leafs play without one.
And the triangle has three solid lines.
(The second is my contribution, but I don’t think it measures up to the other two)
You know why Hamilton will never get an NHL team? Because then Toronto will want one too.
Toronto has fired Ron Wilson and has hired a new coach from Korea. Named Win Won Soon.
Between TFC and the Leafs this is a low point in Toronto sports. It’s that not the lowest point, I’m sure that happened during the Ballard years but I’m too young to remember that.
Instead of watching the game(s), I was at my girlfriend’s having dinner with her parents. That was definitely the less painful of two options.
Don’t forget the Argos!
First, on topic:
Ha ha ha ha ha, Leafs lose again.
This Sunday’s column by Damien Cox was… interesting. Cox begins by talking about how he’s not going to discuss moral victories, and then goes on to write an entire column about how the loss to Vancouver can be construed as a moral victory; he just avoids using that term again. As near as I can tell, this loss was a moral victory because:
- The Leafs had a good third period, and
- Waaaaaah, the refs!
Damien Cox has been writing about hockey for a long time and I’m sure he’s forgotten more about hockey than I’ll ever know, but it was a terrible article, so awful and blind to reality - there is no sane person on Earth who thinks the Leafs were worse treated by the refs in that game than the Canucks were - that I honestly wonder if Cox was waylaid into writing it the way he did by a Star editorial staff desperate for something more upbeat than “What a shitty team.”
When the best you can come up with is whining about the refs and saying you won one period in a sport that plays three, your team is in deep shit.
It might, or it might not. The team that finished 8th and the team that finished 9th might get there via different routes; since they aren’t playing all their games against each other, #8 can still win fewer games than #9 and make the playoffs.
Regina: 37 regular wins, 2 OT wins, 10 OT/SO losses, 33 regular losses, 125 points.
Saskatoon: 38 regular wins, 4 OT wins, 2 OT/SO losses, 38 regular losses, 124 points.
In this case Regina wins fewer games and loses more, but finishes ahead of Saskatoon.
The really obvious solution, of course, is to make it so that there are no “points.” Either you win or you lose. The teams should be ranked according to how many games they win, end of story.
At the very least, we can all agree that Damian Cox is an idiot.
dont forget to add Ron Wilson and Brian Burke to that list.
The Ballard years never happened, the Ballard years never happened, the Ballard years never happened…
::HongKongFooey sits in the corner rocking and hugging his legs to his chest::
No love for John Brophy? 
Just playin’ with ya. I’m still trying to excise the Rejean Houle era from my memory.
omg the streak ends… Leafs Nation begins hailing Jonas Gustavsson the savior! I never thought Anaheim was that bad, lol
Damn…I thought they were going for the record! Do we have to have the thread title changed now? “The Toronto Maple Leafs March to 1-81 thread”?