Central Hockey League new playoff format

[Gary]

New Playoff Format

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The post-season field in the CHL has been expanded from eight to 12 teams for the coming season, with the top six clubs in each conference participating in the playoffs. Each of the four regular season division champions will be seeded either first or second in their conference, with the four teams with the next highest point totals in each conference also participating and seeded third through sixth. In the opening round, Seed 1 will play Seed 6, Seed 2 will play Seed 5 and Seed 3 will play Seed 4 in each conference. The highest seeded team who loses in the opening round will still advance to the Conference Semi-Finals and automatically be seeded fourth for the remainder of the Conference playoffs. Following both the Conference Semi-Finals and Conference Finals, the remaining representatives from each conference will play in the Ray Miron President?s Cup Finals, with home ice advantage awarded to the club with the best regular season record, regardless of any earlier seeding. All four playoff rounds will feature best-of-seven game formats.

Well if you're always first y ou can always take a dive knowing you'll move on to the next round

[twi]

Sounds dumb to me, I'd rather see first round byes. (Which I hate.)

[HatCityEnforcer]

So, lemme get this straight?

A high seed could get knocked off by a low seed and still advance?

Way to make the first round an overglorified exhibition series, CHL....GREAT JOB!

I'm shocked it came from the CHL...I'd expect something this mind-numbingly retarded from the UHL.