There are a few *I will die on this hill because you can't convince me this isn't right* items in hockey and the playoff seeding is one of them.
We see teams within our division enough during the regular season, no need to promote those matchups in the first round as well. So without further adieu, my top 4 fixes to the league, in no particular order.
1. Top 8 teams in the conference are seeded as such, division is meaningless here.
2. All games are worth the same amount of points. I don't care if it's 2 for a win and 0 for a loss, period, or if you do 3 for a win in regulation, 2 for a win in OT, 1 for a loss in OT, and 0 for a regulation loss. But any system that has some games worth different amounts than others is 100% complete ass.
3. Injuries should never factor in to suspensions or penalty calls. Punish wrongful actions, not wrongful results. Clean plays can result in awful injuries and dirty plays can result in everyone being fine. But you look to punish the dirty plays and remove them because they have the higher chance of causing bad results. Punishing due to an injury is just punishing bad luck, it's ridiculous.
4. Officiating should be consistent in all games and within games. A penalty in the first period of a pre-season game should be a penalty in overtime in the playoffs, period.