Interesting, the easts record vs the Atlantic division with those metrics are:
11 with a winning record
5 with a losing record
Second worst division in hockey?
I think Pacific is indeed the toughest division in the league
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11 with a winning record
5 with a losing record
Second worst division in hockey?
lawrence
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L.a seems to the biggest surprise. For me I only looked at our standings twice, since the start of the season, I'm shocked as hell l.A only has 5 losses.
Vancouver was expected to be good as t hey were trending upwards since the last 30 games of last season. Adding Cole, Shouchy, Hronek, and totally revamping our bottom liners improved the team, i'm not saying they are contenders, Edmonton winning 8. I don' know, if its the toughest, since there are also like 3 really weak teams.
Vancouver was expected to be good as t hey were trending upwards since the last 30 games of last season. Adding Cole, Shouchy, Hronek, and totally revamping our bottom liners improved the team, i'm not saying they are contenders, Edmonton winning 8. I don' know, if its the toughest, since there are also like 3 really weak teams.
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How do you think teams with 48% shot share at 5v5 fare in the playoffs?
I'll give you a hint. Not good at all. I know because the Oilers used to be that team. The Canucks currently are there.
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Heh heh. A couple weeks ago there were more teams below .500 in the Pacific than in the entire rest of the league combined. You wouldn't even think that possible but I remember laughing when I saw it.
StickShift
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1st round of the playoffs is going to be a meat grinder for the Pacific division. Two of VGK/LAK/VAN will play each other, and the other team has a 50% shot of playing EDM.
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West was better from 05-06 to 14-15, east was better from 15-16 to 21-22, now west is better again. Boston Florida and NYR are the only good teams in the east so far.
When did this happen? I’ve had leafs over oilers since leafs beat them three games in a row during Covid years
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Vegas - contender
Edmonton - pretender
LA - pretender
Vancouver - seems like an outlier season
Calgary - ?????
The pacific is not that good
Edmonton - pretender
LA - pretender
Vancouver - seems like an outlier season
Calgary - ?????
The pacific is not that good
BertMcDrai
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The pacific has the four best teams relatively to the other divisions but also the the four worst...but only three will get directly to the playoffs, so one of them has to go through WC spot...so you can argue it's the hardest playoff wise to come through...but if one team (like Edmonton at the start) is underperforming then you have the best chance to squeeze in as a not so good team.
It's been a really weird season where teams like Colorado and Carolina were expected to be great yet go through blind stretches and teams like San Jose and Chicago look terrible on paper then do okay sometimes.
Really at this point it's hard to say what the post season will look like and how it will go.
Agreed. Statistics are your friend. Which is why sample size and complete data sets are important in statistics. We are a quarter through the season, looking at east vs west head to head is skewed right now
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metro. islanders 2nd, philly 3rd, washington 4th, what is going on.
I’ve ripped on the division as much as anyone in recent years but it’s a bonafide buzzsaw this year
How do teams with ECHL level goaltending typically fare in the playoffs?
CantHaveTkachev
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Kuzmenko is the perfect case-study of an unsustainable shooting % regressing...last year it was a whopping 27.3%, this year it's 12.5%
there was a zero percent chance he was gonna score 39 goals again this year
Boeser is the new Kuzmenko, shooting at exactly 27.3% this year (along with many other Canucks shooting at high percentages)
KirkAlbuquerque
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CantHaveTkachev
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Oh come on. Vegas is legit, sure. I’m trying not to say anything bad about Vancouver and LA because they deserve a ton of credit this year, but they are so unproven. Anyone think they are actually contenders?
Edmonton… lol do I need to say more?
Then 4 of the worst teams in the league.
This division is far from the best.
Edmonton… lol do I need to say more?
Then 4 of the worst teams in the league.
This division is far from the best.
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A division with only 1 legitimate threat in the playoffs is not a good division
hangman005
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It's good for us..... if we don't blow it
Surely you know what a new coach bump is by now after your 5th coach in like 6 years.
Edmonton isn't even in a playoff spot.
Teams that aren't in playoff spots by murican thanksgiving seldom make the playoffs.
Teams that aren't in playoff spots by murican thanksgiving seldom make the playoffs.
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No reasonable fan thinks Edmonton is a better team than Toronto.
Toronto gets the harder playoff match ups which contributes to the less than stellar playoff record
