LogFAQs > #935375281

The Red Wings win against the Blackhawks last night got them to 37 points. Good news! That means they no longer have to worry about matching the lowest point total ever among Red Wings seasons. That honor will still lie with the 1937-38 Detroit Red Wings, who finished with 35.points (in 48 games). Detroit also had a 28 point season when they were Cougars, but it's more fun to only include their 87 seasons as the Red Wings here.

Also, while I was looking over past seasons just now, I just... can we talk about how fucked up the playoff bracketing was back in the late 30's/early 40's? 6 teams made the playoffs, and the matchups were 1st vs 2nd, 3rd vs 4th, and 5th vs 6th. The 3/4 winner would face the 5/6 winner, and then the Stanley Cup Finals would be the winner of the 1/2 matchup against the winner of the 3rd-6th place teams.

Once the league fell to just the original 6 teams, the bracket was still 1 vs 3 and 2 vs 4. It even stayed that way through the 60's expansion. It wasn't until after '71, when Minnesota intentionally lost games to drop from 3rd to 4th and earn an easier first round matchup did anyone realize that this maybe wasn't the best format.

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