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Ten Teams / Five Spots – Seeds 4-8 in the West

Last Night’s Games:

  • The Good: Blues, Preds and Stars lost; no Bettman points; Kings won.
    The Bad: Avs won. /

Tonight’s Games:

***ANA @ CBJ (rooting for CBJ in regulation)
***MIN @ CHI (rooting for MIN in regulation)
***EDM @ PHX (Go Oil!)
Tomorrow’s Games:

  • ****SJS @ LAK (Go Kings!)
    ***PHX @ COL (either one, in regulation)
    ***STL @ CGY (slightly prefer CGY to win, but in regulation in any case)
    **NSH @ VAN (Go Nucks!)
    *EDM @ DAL (Go Oil!)/

[asterisks reflect my subjective ranking of importance]

Q OFF. PTS W% PRJ PB to94 GP W
1 1 VAN 68 0.708 116 28 12-19-3 48 28
2 2 DET 64 0.667 109 32 14-17-3 48 27
3 3 DAL 63 0.643 105 35 14-16-3 49 25
4 4 NAS 60 0.612 100 38 16-14-3 49 21
5 6 PHX 57 0.582 95 41 17-13-3 49 22
6 10 MIN 53 0.564 92 41 19-13-3 47 24
7 7 CHI 56 0.571 94 42 18-12-3 49 23
8 8 COL 56 0.571 94 42 18-12-3 49 22
9 9 SJS 53 0.552 91 43 19-12-3 48 21
10 5 ANA 58 0.569 93 44 17-11-3 51 23
11 11 LAK 53 0.541 89 45 19-11-3 49 22
12 14 STL 51 0.531 87 45 20-11-3 48 19
13 13 CBJ 51 0.531 87 45 20-11-3 48 19
14 12 CGY 50 0.510 84 48 21-9-3 49 17
15 15 EDM 35 0.380 62 57 28-4-4 46 13

Some observations:

  • Ten points separate 14th (CGY) from 4th (NSH). Six points separate 13th (CBJ) from 5th (PHX).
  • In points-blown (PB), 4 points separate 13th from 5th.
  • The Kings are three points out of a playoff spot.
  • A win tomorrow against the Sharks will put the Kings ahead of San Jose (equal points, equal games-played, Kings have one more non-shoot-out win).
  • If CHI, ANA and COL lose, and the Kings win, the Kings will jump to 9th, one point out of 7th.

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