Grantland.com: Western Conference Dominance?

[kirant]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ern-conference

I personally buy the "bottom feeder" theory. The East always seemed to have worse teams. Or at least more teams just as bad as Edmonton.

[powderjunkie]

Imagine if the East didn't have 4 wins by default agains the Oilers.

[powderjunkie]

I mean 5 wins after tonight.

[Cheerio]

I always love reading Sean McIndoe's stuff, he's also posted here a few times IIRC

[troutman]

Looking at the standings today, there are 5 terrible teams in the East, and only 1 in the West.

The Jets will demonstrate the difference in quality as their win % will drop from last year.

[Resolute 14]

Stat I saw on Twitter last night:

The last team holding a playoff spot in the West has a .777 points percentage. The last team holding a playoff spot in the East is at .500

The last seed in the West is the St. Louis Blues. at 6-1-2. The LA Kings are currently out of a playoff spot, and only one Eastern Conference team has enough points to hold a western playoff spot - Toronto. And even then, only because of games played.

[transplant99]

Teams .500 or worse...

West - 3
East - 10

Its truly hard to fathom how much better the West is.

[The Goon]

Damien Cox agrees:

https://twitter.com/DamoSpin/status/394473837527453697

[Enoch Root]

Based on winning percentage, 5 of the top 11 teams are in the Pacific.

Flames are 16th overall, but 6th in the division

[IamNotKenKing]

Yes it's early and things change, but 2nd in the East would be 9th in the West as of this morning.

[TurnedTheCorner]

It's the western altitude.