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Forum: NHLApr. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Thread: 2023-2024 NHL Discussion Thread #5: The Final Stretch
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NHLfan10506</b></div><div>Brad Elliott Schlossman in <a href="https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-hockey/daily-skate-pro-decisions-should-come-soon-for-und-players" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Grand Forks Herald</a>. (Well connected NCAA hockey reporter, especially for North Dakota. SchlossmanGF on x).

“The Carolina Hurricanes are trying to sign Blake, a fourth round pick in 2021 draft. If Blake returns to UND, he could become free agent next summer. Carolina doesn’t want that to happen.”

Why is Carolina having such a tough time signing their NCAA prospects?</div></div>

No AHL team likely plays a part. I think the fact the Canes are pretty stacked might too
Forum: NHLApr. 3 at 9:50 a.m.
Thread: Restructuring the Wild Card Race.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BDHockey</b></div><div>What if rather than each conference getting 2 WC teams what if there were just 4 League wide WC teams? Could result in 3 or even 4 teams from the same conference, but that is fine in my opinion and opens up some interesting possibilities.
- For starters it makes the race so much tighter. It makes games down the final stretch more interesting and some games more important.
- Results in less lame duck teams making the playoffs and fanbases complaining about how weak the other conference is and unfair it is.
- Could result in teams playing on the opposite side of the Bracket, which I think creates some interesting situations that seems really goofy on paper, but could be cool.

I understand this is very unrealistic, but what do we think?

In addition to this I think that you PWHL system to make the bottom feeder teams compete harder in the final stretch. I think that this makes April an even more mad stretch that is basically playoff hockey.</div></div>

I'm not sure that really makes a difference, the 2 WC spots for conferences already eliminate the bad division problem and I don't think there's really ever been a year with a bad conference
Forum: General Fantasy TalkMar. 30 at 11:41 a.m.
Thread: 2023-24 CapFriendly ESPN Fantasy League
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hurricanes_WPG</b></div><div>Just a heads up, the teams making the finals only play a 4-day week, because the NHL season ends on April 11 (Thursday)

I cannot change the number of days per matchup to lengthen the finals at the expense of the second round, or anything like that.

I can, however, manually change scores, which lends itself to some extra possibilities.


Options (feel free to contribute other ideas):
Just play out the 4 day week and let the game decide who wins.
Double-count Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from the second round so that the finals still have 7 days.
Count fantasy points for each team's NHL Playoff Game 1 and add those to the total.

Any alternate options must be agreed upon by BOTH eventual finalists before the first puck drop on April 5, or else we just run with the 4-day finals.</div></div>

No, as far as I can tell, the finals in our league will be from April 8th to April 18th (which is the final regular season day)