Gord Miller: (Tread) From the GM meetings there was a talk/proposals of a scheduling matrix and increasing to an 84 game season.
“As of last year, the format was mostly divisional, the top three teams in each division qualified, then the next two teams in the conference with the best records got in. An idea being floated now is for divisional only playoffs.
You could either have the top four teams get in, or you could expand it to five, and have teams 4/5 play in a best of three “play-in” series, with the winner playing the top seed in the division.