Montreal Canadiens have more losses than wins and made the Semi Finals

[KVB]

me too actually, lol, total brain fart.

[stevek173]

Lol

[hehfest]

They are a pro hockey team. I've been watching most of the games in these playoffs. They are playing good hockey.....period. They are playing good defensively.....IMO and have a goalie playing extremely well.

[DrunkHorseplayer]

Way different situation. They sucked and then made 2 mega trades for Carter and Richard's. They also hired a top 10 coach in NHL history.

They were clearly the best team when playoffs started, they dominated.

Seriously? Coaches make littlle, if any difference and no two players turn an 8 seed into a 1.

[Tuesday]

Except that they finished 24-21-11 so more wins than losses

I think it's fair to count overtime losses as ties, the regular season overtime 3 on 3 plus shoutouts provide no insight as to predicting what might occur during playoffs.

When regular season overtime was being altered decades ago the idea was to still have ties by counting overtime and shootout losses as ties, but count overtime and shootout wins as regular wins - by looking into how many times a team wins in regular season by overtime or shootout you can reduce their records to see how many actual regulation wins, and doing that will provide better insight into predicting playoff performances.