Dallas and Minnesota are playing each other in round one of the NHL playoffs for the third time in ten years.
Gary Bettman, at the GM Meetings, called the format probably the best playoff first round in any sport. Matt Duchene, Dallas center, with home ice in this exact series, said they have to fix it and he is dead serious. Two people on opposite sides of the bracket. One of them is right.
The format changes when the money changes. Not before. That is the whole blog.
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— Benny Yinzer