{"id":538911,"date":"2026-04-03T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:24:15","slug":"debating-the-nhl-playoff-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538911\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating The NHL Playoff Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is Ask The Maven day and we&#8217;re off and running with this query from Ed Vignow from Tampa\u00a0 Bay:<\/p>\n<p>DO YOU THINK THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF PICKING PLAYOFF TEAMS SHOULD BE CHANGED?<\/p>\n<p>MAVEN REPLY: The NHL leadership \u2013 headed by Commissioner Gary Bettman and league<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Board Chairman Jeremy Jacob \u2013 have considered alterations in playoff matchups over the years.<\/p>\n<p>This year there were two suggestions: One was to add more teams to the mix and the other was juggle the teams into another formats.<\/p>\n<p>Adherents for each alteration make good points but the league command is sticking for one established reason \u2013 IF IT AIN&#8217;T BROKE, DON&#8217;T FIX IT!<\/p>\n<p>Or, to put it another way; the owners like it just the way it is and they have had plenty of time to study the alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday is Ask The Maven day and we&#8217;re off and running with this query from Ed Vignow from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[61770,295,5,61769,4,60,12323,14,104,718,540],"class_list":{"0":"post-538911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-ed-vignow","10":"tag-gary-bettman","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jeremy-jacob","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-playoffs","15":"tag-playoff-teams","16":"tag-stanley-cup","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","18":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","19":"tag-tampa-bay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342178614400753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}