Charles Wang is the owner of the New York Islanders, a team you may have heard of at some point in the early 1980s. Since winning four straight Stanley Cup championships in that decade, however, the Isles have been a franchise toiling in futility. They haven’t sniffed the playoffs since the early 00s haven’t been a respectable team in several years, and there have even been threats that the team could move from Long Island due to.. well, lots of problems.
Charles Wang Opts For Postseason Play-In Tournament Because He Owns A Bad Team
↵With all these problems, Wang needs some money. Playoffs bring in the dollars, of course, so Wang is going to some pretty creative lengths to get his team back to the promised land.
↵↵His proposal was to have the teams that finish eight through 15 in each conference play a week-long tournament to decide the eighth-place finisher. Never mind that 82-game regular season -- that was just a prelim.
↵The No. 8 team, the team that actually earned a playoff spot, would have to win it again, starting with the No. 15 seed and working back through the field -- No. 9 vs. No. 14, No. 10 vs. No. 13 and the always intriguing No. 11 vs. No. 12.
↵↵Crazy, right? Maybe Wang should just focus on putting a competitive team on the ice that can crack the top eight the first time around.
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