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The Last Red said:
Rags are done. Two team race, we should win it.
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If they suck ass against Anaheim and San Jose I'll put a cross on them.
I also won't make the mistake of thinking games in hand are points.
We have a very hard schedule coming up and there are teams we should beat who would like nothing better than play spoiler. Anything can happen and probably will.
 
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dinodebino said:
I think the Rags have the easiest schedule, no? We need to win our two games in hand, simple as that. And our schedule is one the hardest left.
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Rags have an harder schedule remaining than the Habs according to Tankathon listing and Habs have one of the easiest schedule left (26th on 32 teams).
 
dinodebino said:
I think the Rags have the easiest schedule, no? We need to win our two games in hand, simple as that. And our schedule is one the hardest left.
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Not one of the hardest. 2 games vs florida, 2 games vs Canes, 1 vs Ottawa, 1 vs Leafs, but the remaining 7 games are all teams trailing us, meaning, non-playoffs teams.

We've won games against each of those teams too, except Boston and Chicago.

We have a combined record of 12-6-0 versus the remaining teams.
 
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morhilane said:
Rags have an harder schedule remaining than the Habs according to Tankathon listing and Habs have one of the easiest schedule left (26th on 32 teams).
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This is true, .554 vs .535

However, my issue with this is I think it only factors in the winning percentages of the teams, right?

So, if you actually look at the teams left, they face the Isles who they are fighting with and that game may matter. The Canes, Cats and Bolts are at the end and they may be resting players for the playoffs. Minny isn’t a lock so they may play the Rags hard.

Habs will face the Blues and Sens which will be tough as they are battling for WC spots. The Wings and Bruins are cooked but since we play them in a couple weeks, who knows? Maybe they’ll be within spitting range and will play us really hard. We end the season with Leafs, Hawks and Canes. I do expect Leafs and Canes to maybe do some player management but I expect the Hawks to be annoying and give us a hard time.

Both of us have two back to backs, and the Rags do have a California trip with one B2B so that may help us.
 
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sandviper said:
This is true, .554 vs .535

However, my issue with this is I think it only factors in the winning percentages of the teams, right?

So, if you actually look at the teams left, they face the Isles who they are fighting with and that game may matter. The Canes, Cats and Bolts are at the end and they may be resting players for the playoffs. Minny isn’t a lock so they may play the Rags hard.

Habs will face the Blues and Sens which will be tough as they are battling for WC spots. The Wings and Bruins are cooked but since we play them in a couple weeks, who knows? Maybe they’ll be within spitting range and will play us really hard. We end the season with Leafs, Hawks and Canes. I do expect Leafs and Canes to maybe do some player management but I expect the Hawks to be annoying and give us a hard time.

Both of us have two back to backs, and the Rags do have a California trip with one B2B so that may help us.
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Bruins are cooked. 11 games left with only 69 pts. If they win all their remaining games they top at 91 pts and it might not be enough to get WC2, since while the Habs projection is 89 now, it's probably going to be 92-93 points by the end.

Wings aren't far from being cooked too. 5 pts is big gap with so few games left and they have been the worst team since March started and have the hardest strength of schedule left.

The Habs biggest issue is probably the amount of in-division games left, those teams tends to play each others hard regardless of the standing.


As a note, the Blues game would technically be a must lose for the Habs, just to be sure the Flames can't get WC2 out west. ;)
 
The Flyers are out of PO. Now, it's the Bruins that are almost out of PO. We can now strike out Bruins from the race. Next is Red Wings, with few more losses, they'll be out soon.
 
sandviper said:
This is true, .554 vs .535

However, my issue with this is I think it only factors in the winning percentages of the teams, right?

So, if you actually look at the teams left, they face the Isles who they are fighting with and that game may matter. The Canes, Cats and Bolts are at the end and they may be resting players for the playoffs. Minny isn’t a lock so they may play the Rags hard.

Habs will face the Blues and Sens which will be tough as they are battling for WC spots. The Wings and Bruins are cooked but since we play them in a couple weeks, who knows? Maybe they’ll be within spitting range and will play us really hard. We end the season with Leafs, Hawks and Canes. I do expect Leafs and Canes to maybe do some player management but I expect the Hawks to be annoying and give us a hard time.

Both of us have two back to backs, and the Rags do have a California trip with one B2B so that may help us.
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Exactly. Measuring schedule strength is meaningless if all you're doing is ranking %s. As you said, the toughest opponents are the ones who are fighting for something.

The good news is that the Habs aren't facing many teams that are on the cusp. St. Louis might be tough, but they've got a decent lead in the WC2 spot. Florida (2 games) will be tough; they need to lock up their division lead. Ottawa and Toronto will be a battle. But 8 of 13 remaining games are against teams that are out of the race or, in Carolina's case, comfortably in.

NYI have 7 games against teams battling for a spot or better position, plus two games against Washington and one against Minnesota. Tougher schedule than us.
 
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Who do we have in the Hell Game (TM) tonight (since we can't pick neither)?

Blue Jackets W - they move a bit more into the race but don't quite catch us.
Isles W - they move even closer to us.
3 Pt game either way (most likely scenario just because) - FML.
 
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Saundies said:
Who do we have in the Hell Game (TM) tonight (since we can't pick neither)?

Blue Jackets W - they move a bit more into the race but don't quite catch us.
Isles W - they move even closer to us.
3 Pt game either way (most likely scenario just because) - FML.
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We all know it's going to be 3 pts...it always the case when these happens.
 
2 of the hosts for the team 1200 put the Habs at making it at 65% for one and 70% by another.

So, they are thinking the Habs are the favourites.

The 3rd didn't weigh in one way, or another
 
Saundies said:
Who do we have in the Hell Game (TM) tonight (since we can't pick neither)?

Blue Jackets W - they move a bit more into the race but don't quite catch us.
Isles W - they move even closer to us.
3 Pt game either way (most likely scenario just because) - FML.
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Blue Jackets win is best case scenario.

I'll just be happy if it doesn't go to OT. Someone is getting 2 points no matter what, let's leave it at that.
 
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Saundies said:
Who do we have in the Hell Game (TM) tonight (since we can't pick neither)?

Blue Jackets W - they move a bit more into the race but don't quite catch us.
Isles W - they move even closer to us.
3 Pt game either way (most likely scenario just because) - FML.
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CBJ regulation win is ideal. They will still be 4 points back and have an absolutely brutal schedule coming up and to finish the season.
 
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