Cities/Areas With Teams In Both The NHL And NBA ‘Offs

Five cities/areas have a team in both the NHL and NBA playoffs.

One can say six as the Anaheim area has the very local and named Ducks.

Only Colorado/Denver has home advantage in both series,which their Avalanche vs teams in each, L.A.(Kings) and Nuggets vs teams in each, Minnesota (Timberwolves), lead (1-0).

Aforementioned “Minne” has the Wild, who lead once Minnesota team as the North Stars (1-0).

Another aforementioned and teams in each city, Los Angeles has the once Minnesota, Lakers up (1-0) vs the Houston Rockets as big series opening and still underdogs. The Ducks begin the only one of the 16 NBA and NHL prelims that did not start this past weekend, tonight at Edmonton vs the two time final round losing Oilers. The two time champion Florida Panthers did not qualify, surely a rarity, for such an accomplished feat/team.

Meanwhile, both Boston and Philadelphia, whose NBA Celtics and Sixers franchises are clashing in the ‘offs for a 13th time have teams in each league’s ‘offs.

Philly’s Flyers won at the series fave, higher seeded (more regulation game wins)–recalling Pens getting Meehan miracle and then a tiebreaker to get in at the Flyers’ expense in ’72, Penguins in game 1 while the Atlantic Division “reg” winning Buffalo Sabres won their first ‘offs tilt in 15 years, overcoming an (0-2) hole and (4-3 ing) the Boston Bruins in game 1.

The Celtics, (15-7) in previous series vs the Sixers franchise (they were the Syracuse Nationals until ’63-’64), ripped the Sixers by 32 points, in game 1 of their prelim.

The great Dolph Schayes, pictured above, played 14 of his 15 seasons with the Nationals, while his last season was as a Sixer (a team he later coached), scoring over 18 thousand points and averaging 15 per game in his 15 seasons.