The Penultimate Real Standings and Match-Up Variations

Tonight's results

The Good:

The Bad: Kings lost.

Tomorrow's Games

CHI @ DET 

If Chicago wins in regulation:

• It's a four-way tie for 4th.
• The ROW tie-breaker gives ANA 4th, CHI 5th, with Nashville and Phoenix tied in ROWs. 
• Those two teams proceed to the head-to-head, in which they are also tied. So it's on to goal-differential, in which Nashville prevails. 
• Chicago would play Anaheim. Nashville would play Detroit. Phoenix would play San Jose. And LA plays Vancouver. However:

If Chicago wins in a shoot-out:

• then it's still a four-way tie for 4th, and Anaheim still gets 4th because of the ROW tie-breaker, but now:
• it's a three-way tie in ROWs among Nashville, Phoenix and Chicago -- they proceed to the head-to-head tie-breaker, and in that particular three-way, the winner is...still Chicago. 
• However, now Phoenix is 6th and Nashville is 7th. Because it's the head-to-head-to-head records which decide the standings, and in their respective records against each other, Nashville is the worst. 
• Chicago still plays Anaheim. But now, Nashville plays San Jose, and Phoenix plays Detroit. 
• LA still plays Vancouver. 

If Chicago loses in regulation, and Dallas wins in a shoot-out or loses either in regulation, OT or SO:

• Chicago takes 8th and opens against Vancouver.
• The Kings take 7th and open against San Jose. 
• Dallas lands in 9th and misses the playoffs with either 95, 96 or 97 points. But...

Now, the updated standings:

Click on the headers to sort.

KEY:

• Q is my standings, default sorted by points-blown (explanation of points-blown here). 
• NHL is the official standings, via NHL.COM.
• PRJ is projected point total for 82 games. 
• LSF is last season's final point total. 
• MAX is maximum points possible for that team. 
• PB is points-blown. 
• +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed. 
• GR is games-remaining. 
• W! is wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker). 
• SS and SSGR is season series against the Kings (Kings’ points-earned vs. that team’s points-earned) and games remaining (team  name in the SSGR column means that team has won the season series). 2 points for a Kings win, 1 for an OT or SO win, -1 for an OT or SO loss, -2 for a loss. 
• GD is goal-differential.