Canucks have the lowest points (105) of the remaining Western Conferrence playoff teams yet are not playing Detroit (113 points) in the second round.
NHL.com states: "Home-ice in the Conference Quarterfinals was granted to those teams seeded first through fourth in each conference." ALSO: "In the Conference Semifinals and Conference Finals, teams were re-seeded according to the same criteria as the Conference Quarterfinals. Higher seeded teams gained home-ice advantage." So does re-seeding based on points happen at all? What does re-seeding really mean?
2007-04-24 03:23:18 · 6 answers · asked by Hockey Bert 1 in Sports ➔ Hockey
They call it 'reseeding', but none of that actually takes place. After the first round, the highest remaining seed faces the lowest remaining seed, and the two leftover seeds face each other, with the better seed getting home ice. The NFL playoffs work in a similar fashion, but again, there is no reseeding. No one is calling San Jose or the Rangers a 4 seed now, for instance.
2007-04-24 06:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by rickdykes52 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is because anaheim has seed (2) and vancouver has seed (3), detroit has seed (1) so they play the lower seed san jose who has (5). points determine the top 3 division leaders for seeds 1-3, and then seeds 4-8 are determined with the best points recorded in the season per conference. Seeds remain with the team throughout the playoffs, re-seeding means to reorganize positions of teams on the brackets.
Re-seeding works by putting the best seed team against the lowest seed. This was techinically done to try and have the best teams go farther then lower seeds (Unlike NBA where reseeding isn't done after round one, the best teams could possibly eliminate each other by the second round). This also allows teams with a higher seed to have home ice advantage. Points do come into play along with the seeding in the event the two finals teams have the same seed, the team who has the highest points is awarded home ice (for example, the buffalo sabres will be guaranteed home ice advantage for the playoffs as long as they remain).
2007-04-24 11:28:10 · answer #2 · answered by Chief 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What it means is they set the list at the beginning of the playoffs based on the year, and use the list all the way through the play offs. Each division is guaranteed a spot and division winners get seeded 1, 2 and 3. This may not seem fair to you. But I don't find it fair that Detroit gets #1 seed by playing 24 games against Chicago, St Louis and Columbus.
The NHL rules means that if 8 knocks off 1, they aren't the new 1. That 2, 3 and 4 don't get skipped over by 8 for home ice advantage because of the result of a couple of games - it continues to be based on the results of the full year.
2007-04-24 14:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by JuanB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one seeding per season and that occurs after the regular season has officially ended. Perhaps NHL.com meant that teams seeded 1-4 have home ice advantage in the first round. I know that what they mean by reseeding is that the highest seed plays the lowest seed throughout all of the rounds. For example, if the Detroit Red Wings lost in round one as a first seed team, the second place team would then be the first seed team (assuming they won their series). This is what is meant by reseeding although the teams' seed number doesn't change throughout the playoffs.
2007-04-24 10:54:42 · answer #4 · answered by Nate T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The team with the most points in each division are ranked 1,2,3.
The Canucks were their division champs so they take precedence over San Jose. I don't know why they don't ignore the division champ thing after the first round.
Other than that Reseeding is based on points, just like the regular season standings.
2007-04-24 10:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no fair
2007-04-24 10:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Eric S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋