Sunday Night: The Good, The Bad, The Real Standings
Yesterday's and Today's Results
The Good: Preds lost, Ducks lost, Wild half-lost.
The Bad: Kings lost, Blues won, Coyotes won, Sharks won, Hawks won, Flames won.
The Doesn't Matter: Avs lost, Canucks won.
That's a bad weekend's worth of results, but at least the Kings are still in the top 8. Between now and Wednesday night, STL, PHX and SJS all have back-to-backs, and the other six of our ten immediate rivals play once. The remaining rival, ANA, is our Wednesday night game. So everyone has a chance to blow at least two and maybe four points.
Tomorrow's Games
- CHI @ STL -- Go Blues.
Tuesday's Games
- PHX @ PHI -- Go Flyers.
- NAS @ CBJ -- Go Jackets.
- SJS @ DET -- Go Wings.
- COL @ STL -- Go Avs.
- EDM @ MIN -- Go Oilers.
- NJD @ DAL -- Go Devils.
- BOS @ CGY -- Go Bruins.
Wednesday's Games
- SJS @ PIT -- Go Pens.
- PHX @ TBL -- Go Lightning.
- LAK @ ANA -- GO KINGS!
Now, the updated standings:
| Q | ESPN | PTS | W% | PRJ | PB | +/- | TO 95 | GR | W! | R:W | L | OT:W | L | SO:W | L | |
| 1 | 1 | VAN | 85 | 0.7083 | 116.2 | 35 | 15 | 4-16-2 | 22 | 36 | 34 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | DET | 80 | 0.6780 | 111.2 | 38 | 12 | 6-14-3 | 23 | 34 | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | PHX | 73 | 0.6083 | 99.8 | 47 | 3 | 10-10-2 | 22 | 29 | 28 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 4 | SJS | 72 | 0.6000 | 98.4 | 48 | 2 | 10-9-3 | 22 | 30 | 27 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | 5 | NAS | 70 | 0.5932 | 97.3 | 48 | 2 | 11-9-3 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| 6 | 9 | MIN | 68 | 0.5763 | 94.5 | 50 | 0 | 12-8-3 | 23 | 29 | 25 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 8 | DAL | 68 | 0.5763 | 94.5 | 50 | 0 | 12-8-3 | 23 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | 7 | LAK | 68 | 0.5763 | 94.5 | 50 | 0 | 12-8-3 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 9 | 13 | STL | 63 | 0.5526 | 90.6 | 51 | -1 | 15-8-2 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 6 | CGY | 70 | 0.5738 | 94.1 | 52 | -2 | 11-7-3 | 21 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
| 11 | 10 | ANA | 68 | 0.5667 | 92.9 | 52 | -2 | 12-7-3 | 22 | 28 | 25 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | 11 | CHI | 66 | 0.5593 | 91.7 | 52 | -2 | 13-7-3 | 23 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | 12 | CBJ | 64 | 0.5517 | 90.5 | 52 | -2 | 14-7-3 | 24 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | COL | 57 | 0.4831 | 79.2 | 61 | -11 | 18-3-2 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 27 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | 15 | EDM | 46 | 0.3898 | 63.9 | 72 | -22 | n/a | 23 | 18 | 16 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Click on the column headers to sort.
KEY: Q is my standings, default sorted by points-blown (explanation of points-blown here). ESPN is the official standings, via ESPN. PRJ is projected point total for 82 games. PB is points-blown. +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed. TO 95 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). R, OT and SO are regulation, over-time and shoot-out, and W and L after each indicates wins and losses for each of those three categories (e.g. R:W is regulationwins, OT:W is over-time wins, etc.).
Some observations:
- Given the bad results of the weekend's games, I'm surprised the Kings are still 7th (points-blown) and 8th (official) in the West.
- The Kings are in a three-way tie for 6th by both measures, but lose the wins tie-breaker.
- The Kings are 3 points-blown and 5 official points from 3rd.
- They are 2 points-blown and 5 official points from 13th.
- All eleven teams in the hunt for the 3rd to 8th spots are within 5 points-blown and 10 official points of each other. The points-blown numbers show that the race is even closer than the official standings indicate.
- That's because PHX and SJS -- the teams at the top -- have played the most games, while STL and CBJ -- the teams at the bottom -- have games in hand.
- The Flames have played the most games of all, which is why they're in a much more precarious place than their recent streak implies.
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