Thank you, White Devil, and Happy New Year right back at you! I have read we would be in the playoffs, if the regular season was still 16 games. I know "if" is the longest word, etc, but it seemed a shame to me that the schedule got changed to 17 games.
It s a brutal game; the season was plenty long enough before the change, I thought. Also of course, all the statistics from 16 game seasons can't be directly compared to current seasons any more, FWIW. I do realise it used to be 14 games, and maybe the same was said when that got increased to 16(?)