1. Crashnburn_819 - New Jersey Devils
2. Twax - Columbus Blue jackets
3. cheeese (Christoph aka Chreeis) - Vancouver Canucks
4. donaldbalbu SKIPPED 24 HOUR RULE
5. d2_god Ottawa Senators
6. Chadzle Colorado Avalanche
7. Koj Tampa Bay Lightning
8. HollyDell24 - LA Kings
9. Stealth SKIPPED 24 HOUR RULE
10. BB_MelloYello - Dallas Stars
11. kclla - Nashville Preds
12. kira1 - Chicago Blackhawks
13. partank - Anaheim Ducks
14. HyrenX
15. Meatstick
16. farine
17. Max09
18. H4bs
19. LilC
20. eboo92
21. Genetics
22. jaykardux
23. Winlaw
24. vandy
25. dream_5241
26. Nearin
27. Subban
28. JBell
29. coolsmurfer
30. Darc-Deth

Teams left:
Arizona Coyotes
Boston Bruins
Buffalo Sabres
Calgary Flames
Carolina Hurricanes
Detroit Red Wings
Edmonton Oilers
Florida Panthers
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
San Jose Sharks
St Louis Blues
Toronto Maple Leafs
Washington Capitals
Winnipeg Jets

This post was edited by partank on Aug 25 2014 04:11pm

Explain to me how the West is favoured then? Because once the belt goes East, which it will, then that point will be moot. Maybe technically they are favoured for starting with it, but realistically it won't really matter

how am i to do that if you cant understand that teams with higher win% has a slightly better chance than teams than a lower win %

lol i'm not even considering that one conference is stronger than the other, which is obviously true anyway

The only way west is favored is because the teams win more. Just because it starts in the west doesn't mean it's favored to finish in the west. The belt will 100% chance go to the east, once it's in the east - is the west still favored to finish with it? Not with that logic..

Anyway if someone pulls out or doesnt play, i can be a substitute?

The last winners according to nhlchampionshipbelt.com:

Winnipeg
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
Detroit
Florida
Washington (won division but were ranked 7th in points and tiebreaker)
Nashville

Good teams have a better chance to take it when they play the belt holder. But the final belt holder depends 100% on schedule and who's hot and not that night.

Going through the schedule I've got islanders taking it from cbj on the last day of the season. Just guesses though.

This post was edited by dxlightning on Aug 26 2014 08:25am

This.

THE ONLY TIME a team with a higher win% has the advantage is when they are playing directly for the belt, which they have zero control over. And let's be honest, the mid-low ranked teams always play spoiler at the end, good teams sit their best players a lot of the time before playoffs.



So this is moot, unless the team is in possession in the final let's say 5 games, or is in the final game to gain possession.

I don't see how a high win% mid-season would help at all, if you are almost guarantee to lose the belt because you can't go unbeaten.

This post was edited by Meatstick on Aug 26 2014 08:29am

It says right in his post. You even outlined it yourself lol

Sens winning 82-0
Gg no re

Thanks