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That is form of like the primary couple of years of Ye Olde Patrick Division within the early Eighties when the Islanders, Flyers, Caps and Rangers went by way of a pair of 80-game workouts merely to eradicate the Devils and the Penguins from the playoffs. In 1982-83, the margin between the fourth-place Blueshirts and fifth-place New Jersey was 32 factors. The next 12 months, it was 52 factors. In different phrases, it was solely and all about jockeying for event seeding.
Or perhaps you need to return a bit additional, to the Sixties and the time of the Authentic Six, when within the 4 seasons from 1962-63 by way of 1965-66, the Canadiens, Maple Leafs, (then named) Black Hawks and Pink Wings performed 70 video games a 12 months for the privilege of eliminating the Rangers and Bruins. Over these 4 seasons, the fourth-place group held a mean margin of 21.5 factors over the fifth-place membership. In different phrases, it was all about getting home-ice benefit.
By the best way, the Authentic Six playoff construction was an odd one, certainly, beneath which the first- and third-place groups and second and fourth-place golf equipment attached within the first spherical/semifinals. In reality, it was not till 1972 that the NHL adopted a format beneath which the primary seed met the fourth and the second performed the third within the opening spherical.
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