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Originally Posted by Rick M.
I think it will be the tanking Olympics after the trade deadline next year due to the McDavid sweepstakes. This will make it very hard to predict where they will wind up in the standings.
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Good point. My guess is that the Flames will finish somewhere in the 70s for points again, but they could be quite a bit higher than 27th place. Last year, Edmonton finished 24th with a .469 points percentage; this year, the Flames were 27th with .470. It all depends on how many teams swallow a live grenade in a quixotic attempt to tank for McDavid.
(By the way, if a bunch of teams do tank for McDavid, I'd love to see the 17th-place team win the lottery and leapfrog them all. Trying to tank and
failing would make a lot of GMs think twice about doing it again.)