Its looking like the wildcard race in the East is going to be exciting

[Hallonbroder]

Whoa, Ottawa now third in the division, beat Capitals tonight.

Battle of Ontario round 1?

Im lost, isn’t Ottawa in Alberta?

 

[hamzarocks]

Im lost, isn’t Ottawa in Alberta?

No its in Ontario

Big cities (BY CAN population standards) in Alberta:

NHL Level:
Calgary
Edmonton

CHL level:
Red Deer
Lethbridge

 

[KJ Dangler]

It’ll be interesting to see. All these teams have been real hot and cold so if you get them in a hot streak they’re hard to beat. Ottawa went on a 8-0-1 streak with Ullmark in net before his injury. Montreal won 7 in a row and looked like a playoff team. Tampa looked like world beaters to start the season, same for the Rangers. Detroit had the coach bump.

I think Columbus is the exception here. They win at home and lose on the road consistently.

All this to say… I don’t know if I believe the wildcard teams this year will be easy outs.

Columbus has been much better on the road as of late .. and have been doing all this without Monahan , Jenner , Chinakov … Jenner will be back in a week or so .. Fantilli has taken a huge step with Monahan down .. Also Columbus was beating teams out scoring them .. in the last 12 games they are winning games like they did last night in Vegas 2-1 with great defense and goaltending .

 

[jbeck5]

Im lost, isn’t Ottawa in Alberta?

No I think it's in the province of Saskatoon

 

[spintheblackcircle]

The Jackets are on a 4 game road trip with 1 game in each time zone........that has to be a rarity. Teams play in all of the time zones over a road trip, but for it only to be a 4 game trip seems a lot of travel over 6 days.

Vegas/Utah/Dallas/Buffalo

 

[jbeck5]

The Jackets are on a 4 game road trip with 1 game in each time zone........that has to be a rarity. Teams play in all of the time zones over a road trip, but for it only to be a 4 game trip seems a lot of travel over 6 days.

Vegas/Utah/Dallas/Buffalo

Yeah. The sens have a much easier schedule in the second half than Columbus. And Columbus had a much easier first half than Ottawa. Especially if you take in home/away and quality of opponents.

Ottawa got most of their road games and games against the best teams out of the way. More home games and games against non playoff teams the rest of the way.

 

[TheNewEra]

Whoa, Ottawa now third in the division, beat Capitals tonight.

Battle of Ontario round 1?

battle of ontario would be so fun

 

[golgoXIII]

To bad Columbus lost Monahan and HABS lost Guhle it Will be though for Them

 

[Mirka the Turka]

I believe this is the year a really good team that could have done damage in the playoffs will miss out. One key injury to a star player could be the difference.

I'm a Devils fan and I'm even scared that with a slip in form we could be out of it. These wild card teams are cooking.

Also, the Islanders have come out of no where...I thought they were a basement team a few weeks ago.