The Coyotes have earned 53% of the possible points available to them this season thus far. That's good for 11th place in the Western Conference. Only Chicago (50%), Anaheim (46%), San Jose (44%) and Los Angeles (41%) are worse than the Coyotes in the West.
Even if you're a dumb ass who can't figure out how games in hand work (Craig Morgan) - and you just go off of straight up points accumulated, the Coyotes are 10th in the West, and the only team that moves below is Minnesota. The Wild, however, have the 9th best P% in the entire NHL in the month of February. The Coyotes? 24th. So I'd say it's pretty silly to act like they're "ahead" of Minnesota because they have one more point than them in three additional games.
The Coyotes are the 11th best team in the Western Conference. And that's not going to change. They will remain in 11th place from today to the end of the season. I will bet anything on that.