That should be of some use, right? So if you can achieve the best record in your sport after a grueling six-month schedule, that should count as something significant, right? Or what does it really mean?
Home ice, home court, or home field advantage, whatever it is, is so ephemeral that it disappears after 60 minutes, four quarters, or nine innings. That’s not a meaningful benefit at all, is it?
Teams that make it through the gauntlet should be congratulated. But that’s not the case at all. Indeed, if the postseason doesn’t go well, the term “regular season champion” will become a derogatory term.
The Braves once won the division championship for 14 consecutive years, but it was lost in the history carved by the Yankees. Would you rather have David Cone, Andy Pettitte, and El Duque Hernandez on the mound, or Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz?
The Bills, four-time Super Bowl runner-up, were a curious player, and their coach, Marv Levy, is remembered with some sympathy.
The Rangers would have won the Presidents Trophy with a victory over the Senators in Monday’s final regular-season game at the Garden. 1st place overall was at stake. The No. 1 seed in the East was at stake. The metro division championship was at stake. It was served with home ice.
It was up to them to avoid Tampa Bay in the first game.
Dave Roberts stole second base at Fenway in 2004, proving once and for all that there is no such thing as a curse. And yes, it’s true that the 2008 Red Wings and 2013 Blackhawks are the only two teams in Hardcap’s 18-year history to win the Stanley Cup after winning the Presidents Trophy But this isn’t the NHL – there’s no particular dynamic at all.
Only five Super Bowl winners in the past 20 years have achieved the NFL’s best record. In the 54 years of tournament baseball since 1969, when baseball was divided into divisions and an increasingly generous playoff system was adopted, the 15 best-performing teams have won the World Series. .
Over the past 23 years, six NBA champions have had the best regular season records in the league. I remember when the Post was ranking the NBA’s all-time teams following Golden State’s 2015-16 season, in which the Dubs set a winning record of 73-9. I think they were ranked in the top two or he was ranked third according to our judges. I asked someone, isn’t it okay if you don’t win?
That meant winning the championship.
they didn’t.
Just last year, the Bruins set NHL records with 65 wins and 135 points, but after losing to the Panthers in the first round, despite holding the crucial home-ice advantage in Game 7, That season was never talked about again.
We know that the Rangers’ 2023-24 season will ultimately be measured by how far they can advance in the playoffs. It’s a function of 1940, it’s a function of 30 years, it’s a function of last year. It is also a function of modern reality. We have recently fully evolved into a social construct of “what have you done for me?” In the age of instant gratification, last week seems like a long time ago.
Even more disappointing. For the Rangers, this has been a season worth celebrating. Entering Monday, the club had already won a franchise-record 54 games. And while it’s true that the appearance of overtime and shootouts skews the statistics, the Blueshirts entered the finale with a .691 scoring percentage. This was third in franchise history behind the .699 scoring percentage in 1970-71 and 1971-72. He has scored 109 points in 78 games in each of the last two seasons.
It’s been an amazing season for Artemi Panarin, who as of Monday was just two points away from reaching 50 goals and five points away from Jaromir Jagr’s franchise record of 123 points set in 2005-06. This year has been a year of evaluating how the entire team has embraced incoming head coach Peter Laviolette’s detail-oriented, structured approach after a dysfunctional season last spring.
The Rangers were never perfect. But they won the game, won the game, and won the game. They came out of the gate 18-4-1. After a two-month detour, they made it through the All-Star break with a record of 20-4-1. They took first place in the Metro during the last week of October and held on to that spot with all their might for the rest of the season.
Monday was an opportunity for the Rangers to commemorate the season. Monday was an opportunity to celebrate the Rangers’ season.
Celebrations will be canceled starting Tuesday.
No one wants to be the Bills.
