...You have to get your skating legs back under you. And then you’ve got to play a couple of games that mean something, that count in the standings before you get into the playoffs just because the quality of play coming out of the bye week, one week off skates, is often really crappy hockey. It’s not teams playing within their systems. You don’t want to jeopardize the validity of the Stanley Cup to a series of fluky first-round knockouts. I know there are always upsets in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs but I think this opens the door if they go straight to playoffs of delegitimizing the Stanley Cup champion possibly.
"What are you playing for? You’re playing for the championship of all of hockey and to go straight into the playoffs where goals are precious. By the way, the referees haven’t reffed a game in two months and the calls are always controversial and to introduce that much of a variable into the equation, it doesn’t bode well just looking at it. A reasonable period, at least two or three games, have to happen before they start playing playoff game but I don’t know how you resolve that."
-Jack Edwards, play-by-play TV voice of the Boston Bruins. Rob Bradford of radio.com has more.
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