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:
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The Kings are (in points-blown and W%) in a four-way tie for 5th, 2 points out of 3rd, 1 point from 9th.
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In the official standings, they are in a three-way tie for 6th.
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The Kings lose the first tie-breaker against any of those teams, due to fewer R/OTWs.
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Six points separate 3rd from 13th.
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St. Louis has three more games left than the Kings and could use those games to vault themselves back into the race.
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Perversely, the Kings are helping themselves by losing in OT/SO now, instead of regulation.