I think Pacific is indeed the toughest division in the league

[Frank Drebin]

Which would true if that was the statistic I’d used, which it wasn’t, it was a simple number of wins v number of losses.

Ie. Leafs v Pacific won 3 lost 1 - a winning record.

Habs - won 3 lost 6 - a losing record

Lowly Sens - won 2 lost 2 - an equal record.

So the what you have highlighted would be an equal record 1 win, 1 loss, neither team would have a winning record.

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?

 

[lawrence]

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.

 

[Henkka]

Pacific is good, Central is the joke of NHL.

 

[Bank Shot]

Canucks have the most regulation time wins in the league. Am sure you will find a way to discredit that too lol. They have the most goals scored in the league. Is that a fluke too? That's with Kuzmenko scoring only 4 goals. You don't want to look at results and real stats like wins or losses or goals or point percentage, that's fine. But they have beat Oilers 3 times in a dominant fashion too this season. They are the better team and their D is way better too, can score and hit. It's ok to be jealous but that's just reality.

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.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

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]

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.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

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.

 

[Buzzman17]

I agree. It is. Toronto sports media just needs to call it the weakest to cope with the Oilers being better than the Leaf’s.

When did this happen? I’ve had leafs over oilers since leafs beat them three games in a row during Covid years

 

[Miro4Norris]

Lol team holding last wild card spot in West has 28pts in 28 games. East 31points in 25 games.

 

[Three On Zero]

Vegas - contender
Edmonton - pretender
LA - pretender
Vancouver - seems like an outlier season
Calgary - ?????

The pacific is not that good

 

[BertMcDrai]

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.

 

[wetcoast]

Statistics are your friend.

Eastern teams Vs Pacific teams
12 have a winning record
2 have an even record
2 have a losing record

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.

 

[TheOrangeDesk]

Statistics are your friend.

Eastern teams Vs Pacific teams
12 have a winning record
2 have an even record
2 have a losing record

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

 

[dirtydanglez]

Pacific is good, Central is the joke of NHL.

metro. islanders 2nd, philly 3rd, washington 4th, what is going on.

 

[MNRube]

I’ve ripped on the division as much as anyone in recent years but it’s a bonafide buzzsaw this year

 

[CherryToke]

How do you think teams with 48% shot share at 5v5 fare in the playoffs?

How do teams with ECHL level goaltending typically fare in the playoffs?

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Canucks have the most regulation time wins in the league. Am sure you will find a way to discredit that too lol. They have the most goals scored in the league. Is that a fluke too? That's with Kuzmenko scoring only 4 goals. You don't want to look at results and real stats like wins or losses or goals or point percentage, that's fine. But they have beat Oilers 3 times in a dominant fashion too this season. They are the better team and their D is way better too, can score and hit. It's ok to be jealous but that's just reality.

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]

Nah it’s trash.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

How do teams with ECHL level goaltending typically fare in the playoffs?

win a round or 2

 

[Madap]

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.

 

[Three On Zero]

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.

A division with only 1 legitimate threat in the playoffs is not a good division

 

[hangman005]

A division with only 1 legitimate threat in the playoffs is not a good division

It's good for us..... if we don't blow it

 

[Muffin]

Apparently not. We now looking at the best Oilers team in the McD era

Surely you know what a new coach bump is by now after your 5th coach in like 6 years.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Edmonton isn't even in a playoff spot.

Teams that aren't in playoff spots by murican thanksgiving seldom make the playoffs.

 

[Three On Zero]

When did this happen? I’ve had leafs over oilers since leafs beat them three games in a row during Covid years

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