Play off just about set ?

[Sun God Nika]

14/16 does seem to be a lock.

WC2 in the East and WC2 in the west are the only spots I see available for teams on outside looking in.

WC6 is 4pts away from WC1 with about 50~ games left in the rgular season those two spots are in play.

Will be a battle between Boston, Ottawa, Islanders, Penguins Rangers, Flyers and possibly one of the Wings/Sabres if they go on a run for the last two wild cards.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Rangers playoff odds down to 6.7% after today’s loss, barely ahead of the Sabres at 6.1%. Just a shocking collapse.

Would love to see them make a couple of big moves to try to climb back in it. Especially since they’re projected to have well over $20M in cap space at the deadline.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Rangers are done. And two days ago people were calling them a lock lol.

 

[onmygameboi]

In the east Toronto, Florida, Tampa are locks from the Atlantic. Carolina, Washington, NJ locks from the metro. Two WC spots up for grabs. East is weak this year outside the top few teams. Still expect Florida to breeze to the finals, clear cream of the crop.

The Devils beat them twice already. I'd like to see NJD-FLA in the ECF.

I know people are saying the WC1 and WC2 are set in the East but I can't help but look at the Bruins and Rangers and have some questions. The Bruins during their winning stretch were 7-3-0 but 9 out of 10 of those teams were non-playoff teams. They have had the 6th easiest strength of schedule in the league while having a -23 goal differential. The Rangers have had the 4th easiest strength of schedule and have really fallen apart lately. If I were to bet I do think the Rangers will get in but I think one of PHI or OTT is going to pass the Bruins.

Is there a site that has this in a chart:

They have had the 6th easiest strength of schedule in the league while having a -23 goal differential.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Is there a site that has this in a chart:

They have had the 6th easiest strength of schedule in the league while having a -23 goal differential.

NHL Strength of Schedule Rankings

Strength of Schedule Played and Strength of Schedule Remaining for all 31 NHL teams.

powerrankingsguru.com

Per their formula, NYR has the 3rd most difficult SOS remaining, and has played 2nd easiest schedule so far

They don’t calculate SOS by opp. pts percentage though, I believe they aggregate power rankings to come up with a more accurate metric.

 

[LordStanlersCup]

The Devils beat them twice already. I'd like to see NJD-FLA in the ECF.


Is there a site that has this in a chart:

They have had the 6th easiest strength of schedule in the league while having a -23 goal differential.

NHL Remaining Schedule Strength | Tankathon

Shows the remaining strength of schedule for NHL teams based on the points per game of the opponents left on their schedule.

www.tankathon.com

Games have been played since so it has changed a little bit, this one goes by pts %.

 

[onmygameboi]

NHL Remaining Schedule Strength | Tankathon

Shows the remaining strength of schedule for NHL teams based on the points per game of the opponents left on their schedule.

www.tankathon.com

Games have been played since so it has changed a little bit, this one goes by pts %.

Thanks!

 

[sinDer]

It’s almost set indeed.

One spot to grab in each conference.

 

[zappa4ever]

EAST:
TOR/FLA/TBL
WSH/NJD/CAR
are pretty much locks

BOS is questionable w/new coach bump
WC2 is FIVE teams at 32/31 pts

This year seems quite diff b/c all the bubble teams are barely above .500 (BOS 90pt pace, OTT 87pt pace, NYR 85 pt pace)
so any bubble team goes on a "heater" of even just a 4W streak can be the diff

Last year at this time the bubble teams were pacing for around 95pts

 

[Fantast100]

EAST:
TOR/FLA/TBL
WSH/NJD/CAR
are pretty much locks

Occasional table just. Peered table Boston on third Tampa Bay on fourth.

 

[RANDOMH3RO]

I could see the 8 teams currently above the line in the west all making it. Right now the Canucks and oilers and avs are all on the brink but I can’t imagine they have a worse record over 50 games than the flames and Utah and blues. Could he lots of shuffling of position for those 8 above the line though.

The east is a little more interesting because of the sens recovering a bad November and rangers spiraling. Maybe they both make it and Boston stumbles out. Flyers are doing their thing of hanging around but by February I doubt they’re even close. So it’s really just sens and bruins fighting for a division spot and then the loser of that fighting the rangers for wc2. Would be really funny to see a rematch of last years first round of caps and rangers, except this time the caps are presidents trophy winners and rangers are just limping in and get wrecked.