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Nine Teams, Five Spots – The Real Western Conference Standings

Q OFF. PTS W% PRJ PB to94 GP W
1 1 VAN 75 0.721 118 29 8-19-3 52 31
2 2 DET 68 0.680 112 32 12-17-3 50 29
3 3 DAL 65 0.637 105 37 13-15-3 51 26
4 4 NAS 61 0.598 98 41 15-13-3 51 21
5 5 SJS 60 0.577 95 44 16-11-3 52 24
6 10 MIN 57 0.570 93 43 17-12-3 50 25
7 8 CHI 58 0.569 93 44 17-11-3 51 24
8 6 ANA 60 0.566 93 46 16-10-3 53 24
9 11 COL 56 0.560 92 44 18-11-3 50 22
10 9 LAK 58 0.558 91 46 17-10-3 52 23
11 7 PHX 59 0.557 91 47 16-10-3 53 23
12 12 CGY 56 0.538 88 48 18-9-3 52 19
13 13 STL 51 0.520 85 47 20-10-3 49 19
14 14 CBJ 51 0.510 84 49 20-9-3 50 19
15 15 EDM 38 0.380 62 62 27-2-3 50 14

Q is my standings. OFF. is the official (per ESPN) standings. PB is points-blown (2 points for a loss, 1 point for an OTSOL). The blue box shows the nine teams, and the record they need to get to 94 points.

Five points separate 4th from 12th. Ranked by W%, Anaheim and Phoenix are worse than the official standings indicate, and the Wild and Avs are better. But it’s tight tight tight.

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