The Nashville Predators snuck their way into the last playoff spot in the Western Conference on Monday night, cementing the eight teams who will square off for the Stanley Cup from the Central and Pacific Divisions. While the Eastern Conference is still a more nebulous picture, we can already begin to see how the drama in the West will play out.
To recap, the eight Western conference teams that will compete in the postseason are the Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota Wild, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators, Anaheim Ducks, San Jose Sharks, Edmonton Oilers, and Calgary Flames. The Blackhawks have already secured their spot as the conference's no. 1 seed.
I'm never one to compliment the Blackhawks, though, so we'll just offer a quick "congrats" to them and move on.
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The Western playoff picture would have the following matchups: Chicago vs. Nashville, Minnesota vs. St. Louis, Edmonton vs. San Jose, and Anaheim vs. Calgary. In this situation, the wildcards are in position to play division rivals, giving us a hard-fought first round.
The Preds battled the Blackhawks in the first round of the 2015 playoffs, a series which the Blackhawks would ultimately go on to win in seven games. That round was rife with drama, injuries, lengthy overtimes, and antagonism. The two teams have met up five times already this season, with Chicago taking four of those games.
Though, this season suggests that the Preds have struggled against their divisional rival, that's not entirely true. While they have struggled to surge back to the level of success and consistency they had leading to that 2015 run, there's still been plenty of positives. Leading scorer Ryan Johansen has been added to their team since then, along with defensive wonder P.K. Subban.
Filip Forsberg is also having a banner year, and is more than enough to counter the Blackhawks' Patrick Kane on the score
The payrolls for the 2007 30 major league teams are based on a 40 man roster and include salaries and prorated shares of signing bonuses, earned incentive bonuses, non-cash compensation, buyouts of unexercised options and cash transactions. There may be some cases were parts of the salaries are deferred or discounted to reflect present-day values. The following list is in order of highest payroll. The chart on the left is payroll and the one on the right is number of wins for 2007. Based on the charts if a team is at the top end of the payroll chances are they will have a good season, after the top eight of the payroll it’s kind of scattered.
Have you ever seen yourself working as Game Wardens? I honestly don’t see myself working as Game Wardens. If you really don’t know what Game Wardens are and do well let me tell you a little about them. Game wardens are great. It’s a nice work; you can work as Federal or State Warden. Both are great; I prefer Federal. Why? Because you’re still working with the government but to me is like they work better as a family instead of just everyone pretending to like each other and having to work together. Having said that, me give you some examples State and Federal of Game Wardens.
-Winter Olympics: When USA Hockey Team Beat Soviets in 1980, We Knew It Would Last
The Los Angeles Dodgers have almost gotten into the playoffs and looked like real contenders for the past three years. Yesterday marked the day that they would be officially in the playoffs. They beat the Giants 8 – 0 with Kershaw getting the shutout and launching their campaign into the postseason.
Wild Card Playoff - Costas says kill the wild-card and give the best record in each league a first-round bye. His argument revolves around the importance of pennant races to the game of baseball. The wild-card spot negates any pennant races, since second place wins a post-season spot, too. He says that the end of the season is more exciting without the wild-card.
In Feburary the Timberwolves had a six and seven record. The Timberwolves also reached a
were set by some of the great goalies in the past. Also, the rule changes that the NHL
When Paul Henderson scored the final goal for team Canada, every Canadian who was old enough to remember felt the joy and relief that was upon every Canadian who watched that game. Paul Henderson was one of the 38 players of the Canadian team that played against the Soviet Union in the series. The first four games were played across Canada and finishing up the series with the last four games in Russia. Canada wins the emotional series with four wins, three losses, and one tie. The 1972 Summit Series changed the face of hockey from how the players were trained, the level of emotion in the fans and players, and the skill of each player.
The NFL has become the most popular sport in the United States. It is watched my millions every weekend. The NFL is only growing in popularity. With new fans joining the fun every day. The NFL has faced its share of problems too. With concussions scaring away many future players, the NFL is hoping to lower the possibility of concussions in the future. Each NFL team plays a total of 16 games over a span of 17 weeks. There are two conferences in the NFL, the AFC and the NFC. There are four divisions in each conference, each with 4 teams. The playoff teams are decided by the division rankings. The winner of each division makes the playoffs, with the two best 2nd place teams making it in as a wild card.
As population continually increases in the Southern states, the NHL is moving teams into large Southern cities. In an effort to increase profits and popularity, the NHL has increased the number of teams in the league and moved into Southern cities that have never had hockey teams before. The problem is that hockey is not as popular in the South as it is in the North. This expansion in the South has lead to huge monetary losses to Southern teams and very low attendance numbers. The NHL should not have expanded the league into Southern cities and should keep NHL teams farther North.
I know that Division IA football is the only sport that doesn’t hold playoffs to determine a champion. I have always been curious to why this is though. I grew up in a household where football was a big deal and have been intrigued by the controversy stirred up about the Bowl system in place. Sometimes I watch the National Title Game and wonder how the teams are chosen. I never really knew how the system worked. I just knew that a panel or committee chose certain teams based on rankings and conferences to determine which game they would play in.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is the top tier professional ice hockey league in North America. Comprised of 7 Canadian and 23 American teams, it is an iconic organization, home to the hockey worlds previous, current and foreseeably future legends.
The 1919 World Series occurred between the Cincinnati Reds, and the Chicago White Sox. During this eight game battle, the Reds beat the Sox five games to three in a best of nine game series. The World Series is typically a seven game series played between the best team in the American League, and the best team in the National League. In order for a team to get into the World Series, they must first win their division, then win in the playoffs. This was the first time the Reds won the World Series, unlike the Sox, who had won two prior to 1919. The 1919 World Series is believed by thousands of baseball fans to be fixed.
The winner of ALCS (win 4 out of 7 games) will go to the World Series. Tigers have been into World Series for 12 times and Red Sox, 11 times since 1901. As attending World Series is one of the most honorable for players, managers, and even fans, every decision in every play in every game in play-off would be much more important than in regular season.