03-26-2019, 05:25 PMluketd Wrote: I don’t like the idea that the regular seasons would determine the cup. What would happen is that the rookies won’t play as many minutes because they are trying to win more and the rookies aren’t good st the beginning of the season. At the end of the regular seasons the best rookies are decent 2/3rd liners so when playoffs come teams can use rookies without risk of letting in a lot of goals or have them not producing

So your saying that teams will shelter rookies more during the regular season, maybe play more stacked lines, if there is a meaningful playoff series.

I think the only situation where that wouldn’t be the potential case is the current situation. If 50% of teams made the play offs you’d get similar incentives. I am not saying it might not happen but I think teams are communities and they tend to sort that stuff out a bit anyway.

further this proposal would mean a tournament at the end of their first season where they can be meaningful contributors for the whole th8ng, not just the last bit.