Not sure if anyone caught this, but a little while ago Gary Bettman quipped that besides Toronto fans, everyone really likes the new playoff format - the joke being that they've now twice finished as a high seed with respect to the league, only to be stuck playing another top 5-10 team in the first round, when the "ideal" and "fair" playoff system would be a perfect matchup of seeds 1 & 16, 2 & 15, 3 & 14, etc. I largely agree with this sentiment, as a couple years back the second be