The Official NHL 2019-2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

[Majingir]

It's already weird watching hockey in May (thanks a lot Leafs...), August will be weirder.

Although in a regular offseason, late July/early August is when I really start missing hockey.

We've been without hockey for so long that under a normal offseason, we'd be coming up on preseason in a few weeks (it's been 2.5 months since the last game was played)

[nikethebike]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

It's already weird watching hockey in May (thanks a lot Leafs...), August will be weirder. Although in a regular offseason, late July/early August is when I really start missing hockey. We've been without hockey for so long that under a normal offseason, we'd be coming up on preseason in a few weeks (it's been 2.5 months since the last game was played)

Yeah... It is weird.


Risk that this announcement was just one step on the way to cancel it all. They declared the season over. Next step is there will be no playoff. I hope they will do the playoff though, I miss hockey.

[Majingir]

I still don't know how I survived multiple lockouts.

It's only been 2.5 months and I'm missing hockey. It will be closer to 5 months before any games happen.

How did we survive a full season cancelled and no games for half a year almost a decade after that?

[bhurst99]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

I still don't know how I survived multiple lockouts. It's only been 2.5 months and I'm missing hockey. It will be closer to 5 months before any games happen. How did we survive a full season cancelled and no games for half a year almost a decade after that?

I missed it in April and a bit of May. But I think playoffs in August in front of no fans will be such an abomination I won't care for it. I will probably tune in at the start out of curiosity but I think I'm going to turn it off quickly. This format makes such a mockery of the regular season, I could see some upsets in the play-in round really turning off some fans.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by bhurst99

I missed it in April and a bit of May. But I think playoffs in August in front of no fans will be such an abomination I won't care for it. I will probably tune in at the start out of curiosity but I think I'm going to turn it off quickly. This format makes such a mockery of the regular season, I could see some upsets in the play-in round really turning off some fans.

No fans will hurt watching games involving teams that aren't your own. I won't care so much watching a Lightning vs Caps series with nobody there.

One of best parts of playoffs are the crowds. Hanging on every play, every goal, it's great. Obviously we can't have that, but still sucks.

[Fiddy]

With all these protests and what not and all the gathers, heck with it, start these games up with packed houses. Lets go!

[Majingir]

https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/stat...104949760?s=19

I hope this is permanent. I've always been a fan of reseeding.

[Majingir]

Vegas will be one of the hub cities.

The other still isn't known, but sounds like they're still hoping for it to be in Canada, probably Toronto (for the eastern conference games).