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All Purpose 2025 Scoreboard Standings Watching Thread

Zirakzigil said:
Flames just need to take care of their games. Blues just had their easy part of their schedule. We shall see if they can keep this up.
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A Habs win over the Blues tomorrow paired with a Flames win over the Kraken would put us two points back with three games in hand. We have a few relatively “easy” games coming up in our April sched after this gauntlet of Stars/Coilers/Avs.
 
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Best shot at bottom 10 at this point is if we lose both games to the Ducks. Eastern WC race is so tight that we could very easily be passed

Playoff ship has sailed
 
I guess just missing the playoffs (for what feels like the 20th time) is better than just finishing outside the bottom 10.
 
Siignal said:
Best shot at bottom 10 at this point is if we lose both games to the Ducks. Eastern WC race is so tight that we could very easily be passed

Playoff ship has sailed
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The 9th and 10th worst teams are on pace to end the season with 81 and 82 points respectively, Calgary has 80 points. Even if Anaheim takes us and every other team behind the woodshed in a Cinderella run, the current 11th worst team is on pace for 84 points. That ship has sailed, so if you’re rooting for missing the playoffs, you better go to the lottery sim.

Calgary has to make up a game and a half on Minnesota, and take advantage of our games in hand. Good news is we play Minnesota in our final 4 games. It will be a massive game for deciding the season. Other good news is our schedule. After tomorrow it gets extremely soft, against San Jose twice, Anaheim twice, and Utah. They play the same way they’ve played their last 5 games and those will go very well. Bad news is we have officially lost the “control our own fate” title now, we need to depend on Minnesota continuing to falter to have a chance.

Edit: for the people who’d rather focus on picks, there are two races to look out for. First is Florida/Toronto/Tampa. If Florida wins the division, it locks their pick in to be at worst 25, but likely later. If they lose the race though, they get a much tougher 1st round matchup, and the pick is a lot more likely to be around the mid 20s with some weird cases making it early 20s. Can also watch for the Devils, they are currently 14th in the league standings, but have 3 playoff teams looking like they could catch them in points easily. They’re safe from falling out of the playoffs, but some losses and not making it past the second round could drop that pick to roughly 18th. That’s the excitement you can try to watch for if you’re rooting for picks.
 
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Essentially, if we lose 2 games, over the final stretch, we're done. Stranger things have happened but the chances are almost nonexistent. The Blues heater pretty much killed any chance we had of limping into the playoffs.
 
Think it's joever folks. They just don't have enough. Unlikely but I hope they give some other Wranglers a couple games at the end of the year, give Rooney, Lomberg, Bean, Miromanov, and Pachal the last week off.
 
Sparky93 said:
Essentially, if we lose 2 games, over the final stretch, we're done. Stranger things have happened but the chances are almost nonexistent. The Blues heater pretty much killed any chance we had of limping into the playoffs.
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No it’s not that extreme yet. Calgary needs to win their games in hand and win the Minnesota game. Those are the musts. In the remaining 7 games, they just need 1 extra win than Minnesota. So if Minnesota goes 5-2 the rest of the games what you said is true. Any other record affords us more losses.

Easy way to look at it is we need to win the Minnesota game, and have 1 less loss than them for the remainder of the games. Minnesota sputters and goes 3-4, we need to go 6-3. It’s tough sledding, but we aren’t necessarily doomed if we lose a couple games.
 
Yepthatsme said:
No it’s not that extreme yet. Calgary needs to win their games in hand and win the Minnesota game. Those are the musts. In the remaining 7 games, they just need 1 extra win than Minnesota. So if Minnesota goes 5-2 the rest of the games what you said is true. Any other record affords us more losses.

Easy way to look at it is we need to win the Minnesota game, and have 1 less loss than them for the remainder of the games. Minnesota sputters and goes 3-4, we need to go 6-3. It’s tough sledding, but we aren’t necessarily doomed if we lose a couple games.
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The Wild have 87 points, with 8 games remaining. Using their P% over the last 10 games, which is worse than their season average, they'll finish with 96 points. We have 80 points, with 20 potential points on the table. Since we're unlikely to beat Minnesota in a tiebreaker, we need 17 points. It's exactly that bad.
 
Another thing is that the “easy” games against the lottery teams will be harder than playing against the contenders.

The Sabres all of a sudden putting 8 past the Caps is how you know the playoffs are close. Utah/Anaheim/SJ will give us harder games than expected because they’re playing to end on a high for themselves and the fans
 
Sparky93 said:
The Wild have 87 points, with 8 games remaining. Using their P% over the last 10 games, which is worse than their season average, they'll finish with 96 points. We have 80 points, with 20 potential points on the table. Since we're unlikely to beat Minnesota in a tiebreaker, we need 17 points. It's exactly that bad.
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Worth noting our next 2 games are b2b with travel so Utah is a "scheduled loss." Not that that will prevent the team from trying to win or anything facing the Avs and then packing up to fight Utah the next night is pretty rough. An hour and a half flight isn't too bad but still, that's probably exhausting.

IMO the 2 games vs the Ducks are probably the most crucial. We win those we might have a chance of getting in, we lose them we might have a chance of picking top 10, if we split them we're probably screwed.
 
Ledge And Dairy said:
Worth noting our next 2 games are b2b with travel so Utah is a "scheduled loss." Not that that will prevent the team from trying to win or anything facing the Avs and then packing up to fight Utah the next night is pretty rough. An hour and a half flight isn't too bad but still, that's probably exhausting.

IMO the 2 games vs the Ducks are probably the most crucial. We win those we might have a chance of getting in, we lose them we might have a chance of picking top 10, if we split them we're probably screwed.
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I'm saying, 5-3-2 is probably a pretty realistic expectation. That'll leave us 16th-17th in the standings.
 
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