The Return of The Real SORTABLE Western Conference Standings
Tonight's Results
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The Good: Kings half-win.
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The Bad: Kings half-lose, Sharks win, Coyotes win, Preds win.
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The Doesn't Matter: Canucks lose, Wings win.
Tomorrow's Games
- ANA @ MIN -- I prefer (always) for the Ducks to lose, but I'll take a Wild loss; in any case, no Bettman point!
- CBJ @ CHI -- Go Jackets!
Now, the updated standings:
Q OFF PTS W% PRJ PB +/- to95 GR R/OTW R/OT/SO 1 1 VAN 83 0.7034 115.4 35 13 5-16-2 23 35 33-13/2-4/2-5 2 2 DET 76 0.6667 109.3 38 10 8-14-3 25 33 26-16/7-4/2-2 3 4 NAS 70 0.6034 99.0 46 2 11-10-3 24 25 25-19/0-5/6-3 4 3 PHX 71 0.6017 98.7 47 1 11-10-2 23 28 27-19/1-6/3-3 5 5 SJS 70 0.5932 97.3 48 0 11-9-3 23 29 26-21/3-4/3-2 6 6 ANA 68 0.5862 96.1 48 0 12-9-3 24 28 25-22/3-2/4-2 7 8 DAL 68 0.5862 96.1 48 0 12-9-3 24 26 22-21/4-2/5-4 8 7 LAK 68 0.5862 96.1 48 0 12-9-3 24 25 24-22/1-2/7-2 9 10 MIN 65 0.5702 93.5 49 -1 14-9-2 25 28 24-22/4-1/2-4 10 11 CHI 64 0.5614 92.1 50 -2 14-8-3 25 26 24-22/2-2/3-4 11 13 STL 59 0.5364 88.0 51 -3 17-8-2 27 22 20-21/2-4/3-5 12 9 CGY 68 0.5667 92.9 52 -4 12-7-3 22 24 22-22/2-3/6-5 13 12 CBJ 62 0.5439 89.2 52 -4 15-7-3 25 24 20-23/4-3/4-3 14 14 COL 57 0.4914 80.6 59 -11 18-4-2 24 22 17-26/5-7/3-0 15 15 EDM 44 0.3793 62.2 72 -24 n/a 24 17 15-32/2-1/1-7
Click on the headers to sort.
KEY: Q is my standings, sorted by points-blown (explanation of points-blown here). OFF is the official (ESPN) standings. PRJ is projected point total for 82 games. PB is points-blown. +/- is the distance in points-blown above or below the 8th seed. TO95 is the record needed to get to the presumed (by me) playoff-threshold. GR is games-remaining. R/OTW is wins plus OT wins (the first tie-breaker). R/OT/SO is the team's record broken down into wins and losses in each of regulation/overtime/shoot-out.
Some observations:
The Kings are (in points-blown and W%) in a four-way tie for 5th, 2 points out of 3rd, 1 point from 9th.
In the official standings, they are in a three-way tie for 6th.
The Kings lose the first tie-breaker against any of those teams, due to fewer R/OTWs.
Six points separate 3rd from 13th.
St. Louis has three more games left than the Kings and could use those games to vault themselves back into the race.
Perversely, the Kings are helping themselves by losing in OT/SO now, instead of regulation.
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