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August 22, 2010
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
The NHL is working on finalizing a new tie-breaker system for determining playoff seeding. Under the old system, the first tie-breaker was wins...the new system will exclude shootout wins from that equation, giving more weight to regulation and OT wins...
posted by MeatSaber at 02:41 PM on August 22, 2010
Vin Scully discovers the mullet.
posted by rcade at 08:06 PM on August 22, 2010
Holy crap, that is hilarious. God bless Vin Scully and that one more season that he'll be announcing. Maybe he'll discover grunge next season. Not that I'm mocking a legend, mind you, it's just that old people can be funny.
(I can only hope that I'm still doing what I love when I'm that old, and being that unintentionally funny. Which is probably not that hard to do at that age.)
posted by NoMich at 09:27 PM on August 22, 2010
The NHL is working on finalizing a new tie-breaker system for determining playoff seeding. Under the old system, the first tie-breaker was wins...the new system will exclude shootout wins from that equation, giving more weight to regulation and OT wins...
I like it. However, as long as the shootout system is in place (I still irrationally harbor ill feelings towards it because of the 2007-08 season), I would like to see three points for a regulation win and two points for any OT/shootout win.
posted by NoMich at 09:30 PM on August 22, 2010
I like that idea with the exception of two points for an OT win. An OT victory is more valuable than a shootout win in my book and should be treated as such.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 11:52 PM on August 22, 2010
Lou Piniella to retire after today's game