The Euro AI is beautiful.

There's 82 games in an NHL season. Yet a higher percentage of NFL players get seriously injured over the course of a 17 game season. The physicality is different, and it makes sense that there are way less playoff games to get to a championship. Wouldn't say it's on a completely different level, it just takes more games...just like basketball, which has a similar injury rate to hockey.

NBA playoffs are definitely a month too long.

MLB playoffs can also seem endless... but not nearly as hard on the players.

NFL always has had a weird feel to it when it comes to the playoffs whereas a team can win three games with two bye weeks built in on route to a championship. This is why winning the SC will always be on a completely different level from winning a SB. Hockey is pretty comparable when it comes to physicality and the war of attrition, and you have to win 16 games, possibly playing as many as 28 (though that’s never been done) in order to win it.