American Thanksgiving standings - 11/28/24

[Fenway]

American Thanksgiving is the traditional benchmark to see who is in an NHL playoff spot as the season is a quarter of the way done. So here we are................

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[1989]

Even accounting for games in hand/pts %, it's weird to see Edmonton out of the playoffs as of the unofficial predictory cutoff date. I forget if they were also out during Canadian Thanksgiving last month.

Even more damning is the goal differential for Boston (-18?!) and Colorado (-8), and where Calgary (-1) and Edmonton (-5) could be expected to swap places.

I'm interested in seeing how this picture ages by the trade deadline.

 

[hangman005]

Cool cancel the reason of the season.

 

[Fenway]

Even accounting for games in hand/pts %, it's weird to see Edmonton out of the playoffs as of the unofficial predictory cutoff date. I forget if they were also out during Canadian Thanksgiving last month.

I'm interested in seeing how this picture ages by the trade deadline.

Nashville is the

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Lol at not firing Sullivan and having a worse win % than the Habs. Good times...well not good, dreadful, but yeah.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Nashville is the

They were Trotz'd. I mean the gripes for "ice time going to Stamkos etc" is funny to me, I mean what did they expect? You can't sign Marchessault and Stamkos and play them less than they were with their previous teams with the cap hits they are. Stamkos is playing around the same ice time he was in Tampa and Marchessault is the same for his ice time with VGK and Nashville, so naturally that means 2 new players eating up ice time they are used to and your GM gets them and you kind of have to work with it, it means the rebuild gets crapped on because the GM got super excited at the previous season's surprise showing.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

I see the standings mostly holding up except for one of Detroit/Buffalo/Ottawa overtaking Boston and Edmonton moving into a playoff spot over one of Calgary/LA.

 

[Martin Skoula]

There must be some mistake regarding Ottawa’s position on this list.

 

[1989]

Nashville is the

Maybe if you only woke up from a coma in July until now. I think Nashville is a surprise at dead last, but are you saying you definitively envisioned them as a playoff contender in the West? The wildcard gatekeepers in that conference as of the last few seasons are all decently built, IMO.

I'm always suspicious of teams that make big splashes in FA no matter the time of year as they seem to underperform; teams that make less noise seem to find more success through systematic buy-in of strategy and culture.

 

[Fenway]

I see the standings mostly holding up except for one of Detroit/Buffalo/Ottawa overtaking Boston and Edmonton moving into a playoff spot over one of Calgary/LA.

Boston is looking better with Sacco after four games. In their home loss to Vancouver, they faced a hot goalie. It seems obvious now Montgomery wanted to get fired because he knew the Blues would hire him.

IF Detroit makes the rumored coaching change

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I could see St. Louis going on a run and getting into a playoff spot.

 

[weklof]

Wouldn't surprise me at all if the final standings in the East end up looking like this. In the West, I assume the Oilers will take a playoff spot at the expense of the Flames or the Kings. The Avs will probably move into a top-3 spot in the central

 

[Arthur Morgan]

love this time of the season, get to see so many so Thankful and then selfish the following day raging for deals