Are you following hockey at all? I realize that this sounds like a strange question to a Canadian, but I also know that I have a few followers that don't care about hockey. Don't bother reading further.
The west has nine teams, within six points, and only five of them make the playoffs. Every game of the week has playoff implications, even though there's still 19 games left in the season. It's awesome!
There was a time, back when the NHL merged with AHA, and the Jets first joined the league, that I regularly complained about the fact that 16 out of 21 teams made the playoffs. You only had to better than one out of five teams in your division. By comparison to the fact that MLB had bigger divisions, and only one team made the playoffs (at the time), it just really seemed like there was no real point to the regular season. Now, we're at the point where there are going to be some really good teams, well above 500, that are going to fall short of their goal of reaching the second season. The season has some relevance again. It's awesome!
Five more games tonight. I'm sure that everything will change by the time the night is done again.
Stay tuned.
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