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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Anything can happen in a 48 game regular season. Just look every year at the stantings at the 50 game mark and see how different they are at the 82 game mark. I don't think you can discount any team save maybe Columbus making the playoffs. Any team that comes out on fire in the first 20 games likely has punched a ticket into the playoffs as long as they maintain a .500 pace over the last 28 which isn't hard in today's NHL with all the loser points.
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The order changed somewhat, but at the 48 game mark last year, 15 of the 16 eventual playoff teams were already in place. The only change was Minnesota slipping out in favour of Dallas (who were 3 pts out with a game in hand at the time).