The Penultimate Real Standings and Match-Up Variations

Tonight’s results

The Good:

The Bad: Kings lost.

Tomorrow’s Games

CHI @ DET

If Chicago wins in regulation:

• It’s a four-way tie for 4th.
• The ROW tie-breaker gives ANA 4th, CHI 5th, with Nashville and Phoenix tied in ROWs.
• Those two teams proceed to the head-to-head, in which they are also tied. So it’s on to goal-differential, in which Nashville prevails.
• Chicago would play Anaheim. Nashville would play Detroit. Phoenix would play San Jose. And LA plays Vancouver. However:

If Chicago wins in a shoot-out:

• then it’s still a four-way tie for 4th, and Anaheim still gets 4th because of the ROW tie-breaker, but now:
• it’s a three-way tie in ROWs among Nashville, Phoenix and Chicago — they proceed to the head-to-head tie-breaker, and in that particular three-way, the winner is…still Chicago.
• However, now Phoenix is 6th and Nashville is 7th. Because it’s the head-to-head-to-head records which decide the standings, and in their respective records against each other, Nashville is the worst.
• Chicago still plays Anaheim. But now, Nashville plays San Jose, and Phoenix plays Detroit.
• LA still plays Vancouver.

If Chicago loses in OT or SO:

If Chicago loses in regulation, and Dallas wins in a shoot-out or loses either in regulation, OT or SO:

• Chicago takes 8th and opens against Vancouver.
• The Kings take 7th and open against San Jose.
• Dallas lands in 9th and misses the playoffs with either 95, 96 or 97 points. But…

If Chicago loses in regulation, and Dallas wins in regulation or OT:

Now, the updated standings:

Q	NHL		PTS	W%	PRJ	MAX	LSF	PB	+/-	>9th	GR	W!	SS	SSGR	GD
1	1	VAN	117	0.7134			103	47	19			50	-1	VAN	77
2	2	SJS	105	0.6402			113	59	7			43	-2	SJS	35
3	3	DET	102	0.6296	103.3	104	102	60	6		1	42	3	LAK	19
4	4	ANA	99	0.6037			89	65	1			43	-3	ANA	4
5	5	NAS	99	0.6037			100	65	1			38	4	LAK	25
6	6	PHX	99	0.6037			107	65	1			38	-1	PHX	5
7	8	CHI	97	0.5988	98.2	99	112	65	1	0-0-1	1	38	-8	CHI	34
8	7	LAK	98	0.5976			101	66	0			36			21
9	9	DAL	95	0.5864	96.2	97	88	67	-1	1-0-0	1	37	5	LAK	-4
10	10	CGY	94	0.5732			90	70	-4			32	2	LAK	13
11	11	STL	87	0.5305			90	77	-11			34	-8	STL	6
12	12	MIN	84	0.5185	85.0	86	84	78	-12		1	35	1	LAK	-29
13	13	CBJ	81	0.4939			79	83	-17			29	3	LAK	-43
14	14	COL	66	0.4074	66.8	68	95	96	-30		1	23	8	LAK	-62
15	15	EDM	61	0.3765	61.8	63	62	101	-35		1	23	7	LAK	-75

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.
• PRJ is projected point total for 82 games.
• LSF is last season’s final point total.
• MAX is maximum points possible for that team.
• PB is points-blown.
• +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed.
• GR is games-remaining.
• W! is wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker).
• SS and SSGR is 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.