In reply to: Not until he has another 2016esque dud of a year posted by alleghenyirish
We were #5 at the end of the regular season in 1990 and 1992. Maybe the committee would have let us in those years. Either team might have won it all in the playoff format.
But we would have been in for sure in 1988, 1989, and 1993. And it's hard to imagine that we wouldn't have come away with at least two of those titles.