If we are going for it, I recon NJD is to root for since one have to expect that we also would do well in PO mode with 6 games to go, but I don't know...
Also, I could be wrong here, but I want the best possible 8th and/or 7th team to play Bos and Pitt, and I would guess at NJD being one of those teams ahead of NYI and the Jets (but I could be underrating the later two).
And I mean, even if we finnished 7-8, if NJD wins their matchup against Pitt or Bos with Kova back, we'd be playing to get out into a wide open East in our first matchup with Pitt/Bos. That's as good of a chance at the cup as you ever is going to get.