lmanchur.
03-30-2001, 11:25 PM
Well, the regular season is winding down and ends on April 9 (i think!), with the playoffs beginning April 11. Teams have between 5 and 7 games left in their regular season, and the time for the league is to look back and see if the regular season was a success, even though it always critisized for being too long.
Personally, I think it was a GREAT season for hockey. Scoring went up... again. But yet, the low-scoring games I actually ENJOYED watching this year, which I usually don't (although, I still avoid watching New Jersey in fear of deep, deep defensive bordem). There was actually a scoring race this year that will go down to the wire. In BOTH conferences, no one ranked fifth through ninth or tenth right now is gauranteed a spot in the playoffs OR else is not gauranteed at high seed.
There have been a lot of individual surprise stories this season (Chechmanek, Nabokov, Richards, Burke, etc.), not to mention Joe Sakic who is having a career year.
I just think that this season was the best in a long time, and the best hockey is still yet to come in the playoffs!
Personally, I think it was a GREAT season for hockey. Scoring went up... again. But yet, the low-scoring games I actually ENJOYED watching this year, which I usually don't (although, I still avoid watching New Jersey in fear of deep, deep defensive bordem). There was actually a scoring race this year that will go down to the wire. In BOTH conferences, no one ranked fifth through ninth or tenth right now is gauranteed a spot in the playoffs OR else is not gauranteed at high seed.
There have been a lot of individual surprise stories this season (Chechmanek, Nabokov, Richards, Burke, etc.), not to mention Joe Sakic who is having a career year.
I just think that this season was the best in a long time, and the best hockey is still yet to come in the playoffs!