Over a decade ago, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman came up with an idea he thought was brilliant. He wanted to create more heated rivalries in the sport. While some division rivals disliked each other, he wanted to retune it so that teams geographically closer to one another would have, by design, play each other more often in the postseason. To do this, Bettman and the NHL got rid of the No. 1 seed in the Western or Eastern Conference playing the No. 8 seed and made the postseason matchups come