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Originally Posted by moon
Assuming that LA, Minnesota, Dallas and SJ loss all their games in hand.
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If Calgary, wins their two games in regulation or OT, they would be ahead of Dallas and Minnesota, no matter what.
Dallas could win their game to be tied with Calgary in record, and tied in ROW, but Calgary would take the season series tiebreaker.
Minnesota must lose to Calgary to make the scenario possible - as we already said that Calgary would win that game. The best possible scenario after that has Minnesota tied again in record, but they would lose the ROW tiebreaker to Calgary.
San Jose has the same two games in hand, and would have to go 1-0-1 or 2-0 in those two games to be ahead of Calgary after 19 games. 1-1-0 and they also lose the ROW tiebreaker to Calgary.
LA has three games to get to 19 games played. A 1-1-1 record in those three games gives them exactly the same record as Calgary, but again, they would lose the ROW tiebreaker to Calgary. LA would have to go 2-1-0 or better to be ahead of Calgary's 19 game pace.
In my original post, i used the words "very likely" which maybe is a bit too strong, but it certainly is possible.
Either way, if the Flames happen to win their next two games in Regulation or OT, they will have AT LEAST the 7th best record in the conference through 19 games, and could be as high as 5th best.
Calgary is the only western conference team without a shootout win, which means that, at this point, we win a lot of tiebreakers.