Yesterday’s Results
The Good: LAK half-won, MIN half-lost, DAL half-lost.
The Bad: ANA won, NAS won, SJS won.
Today’s Games
NAS @ BUF — Go Sabres.
MTL @ MIN — Go Habs.
CHI @ PHX — I would prefer the Coyotes to win, just to keep Chicago from pulling even with the Kings. But I’ll take a regulation win either way.
CGY @ ANA — I would prefer the Flames keep the Ducks down, but in any case NO BETTMAN POINTS.
Now, the updated standings:
| Q | NHL | PTS | W% | PRJ | LSF | PB | +/- | TO 96 | GR | W! | SS | SSGR | GD | |
| 1 | 1 | VAN | 103 | 0.7055 | 115.7 | 103 | 43 | 16 | n/a | 9 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 66 |
| 2 | 2 | DET | 94 | 0.6528 | 107.1 | 102 | 50 | 9 | 1-9-0 | 10 | 39 | 3 | LAK | 29 |
| 3 | 3 | SJS | 92 | 0.6301 | 103.3 | 113 | 54 | 5 | 2-7-0 | 9 | 37 | -1 | 2 | 20 |
| 4 | 4 | PHX | 89 | 0.6096 | 100.0 | 107 | 57 | 2 | 3-5-1 | 9 | 35 | -2 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | 5 | LAK | 86 | 0.5972 | 97.9 | 101 | 58 | 1 | 5-5-0 | 10 | 33 | n/a | n/a | 21 |
| 6 | 7 | CHI | 84 | 0.5915 | 97.0 | 112 | 58 | 1 | 6-5-0 | 11 | 33 | -8 | CHI | 31 |
| 7 | 6 | DAL | 85 | 0.5903 | 96.8 | 88 | 59 | 0 | 5-4-1 | 10 | 33 | 3 | LAK | 1 |
| 8 | 9 | ANA | 83 | 0.5845 | 95.9 | 89 | 59 | 0 | 6-4-1 | 11 | 35 | 1 | 2 | -5 |
| 9 | 8 | NAS | 84 | 0.5833 | 95.7 | 100 | 60 | -1 | 6-4-0 | 10 | 31 | 4 | LAK | 17 |
| 10 | 10 | CGY | 83 | 0.5685 | 93.2 | 90 | 63 | -4 | 6-2-1 | 9 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 11 | 11 | MIN | 78 | 0.5417 | 88.8 | 84 | 66 | -7 | 9-1-0 | 10 | 33 | 1 | LAK | -12 |
| 12 | 12 | CBJ | 76 | 0.5352 | 87.8 | 79 | 66 | -7 | 10-1-0 | 11 | 29 | 3 | LAK | -20 |
| 13 | 13 | STL | 73 | 0.5069 | 83.1 | 90 | 71 | -12 | n/a | 10 | 28 | -8 | STL | -13 |
| 14 | 14 | COL | 62 | 0.4366 | 71.6 | 95 | 80 | -21 | n/a | 11 | 23 | 6 | LAK | -52 |
| 15 | 15 | EDM | 56 | 0.3889 | 63.8 | 62 | 88 | -29 | n/a | 10 | 21 | 5 | LAK | -62 |
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 (ESPN has the tie-breakers wrong). PRJ is projected point total for 82 games. LSF is last season’s final point total. PB is points-blown. +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed. TO 96 is the record needed to get to the presumed (by me) playoff-threshold. GR is games-remaining. W! is wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker). SS and SSGR are 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.
Observations:
- 3 points-blown separate 4th from 9th.
- 6 official points separate 4th from 9th.
- The disparity is attributable to PHX’s 1-2 extra games-played (depending on who you compare to).
- LAK, DAL, CHI and ANA are clustered with a single point-blown between them.
- Losing last night, the Kings blew a chance to climb into a tie with Anaheim in tie-breaker wins.
- Instead, the Kings are tied at 33 wins (W!) with Chicago and Dallas, two behind Phoenix and Anaheim and four behind San Jose. We need to close that gap.
- That’s especially important re Chicago, since we’ve already lost the season series against them. (i.e. either we beat them in W! or we don’t beat them.)
- A Flames loss today and they’re all but done. I don’t think they’ll be able to close out the season 6-1-1. Still, I’m rooting for them to beat Anaheim.