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Why (and how) the NHL should expand the playoffs

The Wysh List publishes every Friday.

They talk amongst themselves, these NHL governors at their board meetings. Dinner plans. Gossip. Yachts, probably.

But they also talk about the things they'd like to see happen in the NHL, even if they know they'll be summarily voted down by the current commissioner and his firewall of hand-picked loyalists.

For example, expanding the Stanley Cup Playoffs by four teams and expanding the bracket out with four play-in games, once Seattle enters the NHL in 2021.

One Eastern Conference governor told ESPN that "nearly everyone in this room wants to expand the playoffs.