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Originally Posted by transplant99
One more time....
The playoffs are made or not based solely on pts earned during the season.
Right now the Flames have half the points they could possibly have accrued thus far...ergo... they are at 50% or .500 of possible pts.
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Haha. Didn't mean to cause a kerfuffle. Just bugs me that's all. Saying a team has a .500 record to me implies that they are even in terms of wins and losses and would be exactly average. .500 would now not be a benchmark to aspire to or measure success by - the extra point makes .600 a more realistic point of measurement for this.
If a team goes 0W - 27L in regulation length games, and 28W - 27L in games going to a shootout, they could say "hey we have a record of above .500"
Even though they did not win a single game in regulation or overtime all year and it would be considered a terrible year and probably the worst in the history of NHL hockey. Just sayin. I realize it is all semantics, but it just kind of bugs me.