How many points will it take to make the playoffs - 2013-14 edition

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Wild-card at Anaheim
Los Angeles at San Jose

Chicago/Colorado at Colorado/Chicago/St. Louis
Wild-card at St. Louis/Colorado

Minnesota is locked in to #1 Wildcard, but their opponent is yet to be determined, as either the Central winner OR Anaheim could be the lower-point-getter, and draw the Minnesota first-round matchup.

Dallas/Phoenix still fighting for the #2 Wildcard - Dallas's magic number is 4 points.

Chicago can finish either #2 or #3, but cannot win the Central.

Colorado can clinch first-round home ice with 2 points - which they can get with any kind of win in Vancouver tonight.

St. Louis can clinch the Central with 5 points, and can avoid Minnesota with 6 points.
 
After the games of 4/10/14

Western Conference playoff pairings would be:
Minnesota (1WC - 99 pts) at Colorado (1C - 114 pts)
Chicago (3C - 110 pts) at St. Louis (2C - 114 pts)

Dallas (2WC - 91 pts) at Anaheim (1P - 115 pts)
Los Angeles (3P - 100 pts) at San Jose (2P - 110 pts)

Chicago is now locked into the #3 spot in the Central.

Dallas can clinch the #2 wildcard with any kind of win tonight against St. Louis.

Colorado has _clinched_ the ROW tiebreaker over St. Louis, so two wins of ANY kind would clinch the division for them.

Anaheim remains in control of the Western Conference race - they have clinched the ROW tiebreaker over both Colorado and St. Louis, thus are only 3 points away from claiming home-ice advantage through three rounds (and drawing the #2 wildcard instead of Minnesota).

Colorado and St. Louis are OUT of the President's Trophy race - Boston has already clinched the ROW tiebreaker over both. Boston is now 2 points away from clinching the race over Anaheim.
 
And the final answer is:

90 points, or 89 points and 31 ROW... unless you're looking at what a team outside would have needed to get in... in which case that's 91 points and 37 ROW, or 92 points.

See y'all for this thread in a few months!
 
Since there is only one game played by each team in the west these numbers will go up. Where they are probably accurate with the one game played I would guess the number will be closer to 90-94 in the end. Will be interesting to see how close that estimate really is.

And the final answer is:

90 points, or 89 points and 31 ROW... unless you're looking at what a team outside would have needed to get in... in which case that's 91 points and 37 ROW, or 92 points.

See y'all for this thread in a few months!

I'll stand my original answer.
 
And the final answer is:

90 points, or 89 points and 31 ROW... unless you're looking at what a team outside would have needed to get in... in which case that's 91 points and 37 ROW, or 92 points.

See y'all for this thread in a few months!

Thanks again for doing this HansH!
 

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