SJS, DAL, CHI, LAK, CGY, PHX, MIN, ANA, NAS: 3rd to 11th in the West.
The Ducks and Sharks each have 12 games against one of the others.
The Stars have 11.
The Kings, 10.
The Coyotes, 9.
Flames, 6.
Wild, Preds and Hawks, 4.
36 games in all, involving two of those nine teams, head-to-head.
Since someone has to lose, or at least half-lose, each of those games, I like to think of that as somewhere between 36 and 72 points people aren’t going to get.
