I'm saying 5 points. Wins against Arizona and L.A., overtime loss against San Jose, hard-fought but close loss to Anaheim. No shame if they get those sorts of results. It would technically end up a 3-1-1 road trip, and I can live with that.
As for the make or break part, it's sort of true and sort of not. There are still a lot of divisional games to be played. We play the Sharks 2 times in the first week of February, followed closely by games against L.A., Vancouver, and the Ducks again. The good news is that if they don't do as well as they want, they have another opportunity to gain position in a couple weeks, and that will lead up to the trade deadline shortly after. That will be crunch time IMO for this team and will likely dictate what moves (if any) are made.
Still lots of hockey to be played and with so many teams so close in the division, all it takes is for one to falter just a little. I'm not as concerned about the Avs, Stars, Wild, as they have much tougher divisional games than we do and are not likely to win them all.
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