Template talk:NHLPlayoffs

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[edit] Home team

Shouldn't the home team be placed on the right side instead of the left? -- CoS 05:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Some people do it like that, but the venue should clarify this problem. --Sukh17 T • C • E 06:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
    • I see. Is there a particular reason not doing it that way? At least for me, I was confused for a while before I looked at the venue. -- CoS 06:51, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Well, to tell you the truth, I didn't really consider it that much, and I was actually going to put the home team second, but for the sake of moving games summaries easier, I decided to move about the order so it could make the switch to this template easier since the game summaries were in a home team first format already.
        • OK then. -- CoS 19:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use for minor league hockey

Hey I was wondering if there was any way to reformat this template for the AHL and ECHL playoffs, so all North American hockey league playoff results could be uniform?--Rik (talk) 02:34, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the AHL and ECHL playoffs. What would need to be different in those cases? --Sukh17 T • C • E 07:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Well to say the least the ECHL playoff format is very wacky, only one of the two conference has a regular 8-team, best of 7 series playoff format to decide their finals representative while the other conference has one three game series, six best of five series, and four seven game series, so pretty much the template would need the ability to accommodate for at least a 3 game series, for example the three game series ended in two games and i tried to do that by only putting in two games but when i previewed it, the template was showing fill-in spots for games 3 and 4. If it's too much work for too little reward then don't worry about. Thanks though. --Rik (talk) 20:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How are the home games delegated in the AHL and ECHL playoffs for 3 game series, 5 game series and 7 games series? My assumption would be Home-Away-Home for the 3 game series, Home-Home-Away-Away-Home for the 5 game series and same as the NHL for the 7 game series. Please let me know if this is correct, and if there are any other suggestions you have regarding this template, either for the ECHL, AHL or even the NHL playoffs. Thanks. --Sukh17 T • C • E 08:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
This years three game series was Away-Home-Home, three of the four five game series are Home-Home-Away-Away-Home with one series being Away-Away-Home-Home-Home, and the seven game series are Home-Home-Away-Away-Away-Home-Home. I'm thinking since your template uses the home arena to specify who is home and who is away, I think that would work just as well for the ECHL and AHL playoffs. The AHL in the past has had the top four teams from each division advance to the playoffs taking a look of Division Semis->Division Finals->Conference Finals->Calder Cup Finals, but I believe the AHL is using a new playoff system this year and I'll let you know how the new format works when I find out more. I hope this has helped. --Rik (talk) 18:00, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Okay, let me inform you of the changes I have made to facilate expanded usage of this template. First, you can limit the template to only two games now. Secondly, entering in the parameter home#, where #, and setting it equal to the team number will force the template to set home ice equal to that team number. Let me know if you have any questions, and please feel free to try it out and let me know if you find any bugs. --Sukh17 T • C • E 23:59, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Game 7 details problem

When goals & goalies are entered for Game 7 in the playoffs, the [show]-button becomes replaced with !style="font-size:85%"|. Just look at 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs#(1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (8) Boston Bruins. Any ideas why? Could it be fixed? lil2mas (talk) 23:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Thank you for bringing this issue to my concern. The problem has been recognized and I'm working in an expedited manner to figure out the culprit to this conundrum. --Sukh17 T • C • E 00:53, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
    • This issue has now been resolved. Thanks again for bringing this to attention. --Sukh17 T • C • E 00:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 4OT goalscorer problem

Why aren't Brenden Morrow's goal in 4th overtime period showing in 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs#(2) San Jose Sharks vs. (5) Dallas Stars? Something missing in the template, or should more periods with "No scoring" be applied in the game? lil2mas (talk) 06:41, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't think I included that many parameters, so I'll have to add an additional one. —Sukh17 Talk 06:47, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Here's the deal: no matter how many overtimes the actual game goes, you enter overtime scoring in the (game number)-4-(team number) parameter, rather than continuously going up. The ot(game number) parameter takes care of the titling of the overtime period. I have edited the section you are referring to show you what I mean. Thanks. —Sukh17 Talk 06:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for solving problems quickly. lil2mas (talk) 07:09, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Game Recap field

This is in response to issues brought up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ice Hockey#Standardization / Use of Template:NHLPlayoffs:

Would it be possible to include a field where we could link to the "Game Recap" at NHL.com so that our focus when writing prose is on only the most important details of each round. Ideally, for games that have already been played this link would be placed in the same spot as the broadcast.

I don't know if placing two mutually exclusive fields in the same spot is technically possible. If not, we may want two nearly identical templates:

  • Template:NHLPlayoffs, for completed series, which would include everything we have now, except with the Game Recap link in place of the broadcaster,
  • and Template:NHLPlayoffsCurr (or something like that), for series in progress, which would be the template exactly as it is now.

This "Game Recap" field is currently provided for international tournaments, notably the 2008 IIHF World Championship. All other important statistical information (game summary, play-by-play, event summary, box score) are linked right at the top of each NHL.com "Recap" page. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 22:15, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I've edited the template so now that inclusion of a recap parameter equal to the location of the summary online less the http:// portion will result in a external link titled Recap leading the aforementioned summary. I have edited the example on the template's main page to reflect this. I hope this helps with the standardization of this template across all NHL playoffs articles. Please let me know of any other changes that are proposed by leaving further comments on this talk page or on my own talk page. Thanks! —Sukh17 Talk 02:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I've added the field to each game for the 2008 playoffs. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 20:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)