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I love this move. It gives other teams a chance. Only tweak would be to make it the teams with the two lowest records facing each other in an elimination round. Its unfair to the WC teams that are better than the division winners.
Another side-effect of the bargaining agreement:
HGH BLOOD testing. A MUCH bigger change to the testing than what was done in 2004 and 2005. This could be quite impactful depending on whether these are one-time ST tests or done randomly during the season.