Point percentage is more of a predictive stat. You actually need to win those games to get the points. But that's not guaranteed.
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Tralfamadore
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Exactly my point. Playoff positions are determined when 82 games have been played not in December. The 8 teams in each conference with the highest point percentages after 82 games have been played make the playoffs.
The point of point percentage is to give you a general idea inside the course of the season. The percentage doesn't matter after 82 games, because you can just go off of the flat number.
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Yes because they're the exact same thing.
The original post I replied to said the league doesn't determine playoff spots by point percentages which it absolutely does at the the end of the year because points and point percentages are directly related. If the post had said the league doesn't determine standings throughout the season by point percentages than I wouldn't have replied.
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Fellas, at the completion of the regular season, each team will have played 82 games. In most professional sports, at that time, the standings according to games won ( points) would be identical to the standings according to Points %, rendering Points % as an unnecessarily obtuse metric. The NHL considers 1) Points, 2) RW, 3) ROW, 4) Total Wins ( W column), 5) Head-to-head (This is where Points % can occasionally come into play, but only mid-season as one key variable - total games played - can be eliminated at the end of the season because all teams would have that identical number of GP) and 6) Goal Differential.
Right now there are 6 teams in the West who could switch order in as little as 2 games, so I understand what those who favor Points % are saying. That said, I would still like the 2-point lead as the Avs have those points in the bank and Dallas / Vancouver / Calgary / Edmonton do not...yet
I refuse to believe this is an actual name and that he played for the Avs
Peter Peckerwood
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Bitchin' about points and current standings...yep, par for the course. The trajectory seems to be improving with a lineup that is sub-optimal in spots because several players are currently dead. This team is definitely due to go on a heater, and so are the big guns.
Bill Peckerskull
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It's a typo, and he played for the Nords (Franchise history)
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Because they got bailed out by good goaltending against two bottom feeder teams?
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Yea his first name is Wilfrid.It's a typo, and he played for the Nords (Franchise history)
"Wild Paiement" did make me laugh though.
Vaslof
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Goalies are supposed to stop pucks. I know it feels weird after the Georgiev and Annunen era. But it is normal.
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I'm not bringing up anything lol have you read the conversation?? The only point I made was that the league does in fact determine playoff spots by point percentages by ranking teams on points.
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Not acknowledging that point% is a better reflection of teams records than pts is quite obtuse...
Ceremony
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We really need to just keep winning forever because I'll be f***ed if I'm reading post after post arguing about semantics because we're paying Makar and Rantanen a combined 30 million a year and struggling.
Somehow that's even worseIt's a typo, and he played for the Nords (Franchise history)
Hennessy
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It's not like Wilf was some unknown scrub. That's just sad.
rumor going around that avs might have a couple of decent goalies.
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It’s just too bad we gave up so much, that 2nd could have been anything. ANYTHING!
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It could have been the next Cam Morrison! What a bad trade
