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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
Seriously guys? I'll root for an Oilers win if it helps our playoff chances. That way we can just embarrass them worse by ousting them out of the postseason ourselves. What if we miss the playoffs by one point to Nashville? You honestly wouldn't root to have the Oilers do us a favor tonight?
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If Nashville wins in regulation, they do jump us to the WC1 spot, but we're still in WC2. We would also be 6 pts behind the Oilers, but they no longer hold a game in hand. It also means that the Preds probably worked the Oilers over and made them tired for tomorrow. Hopefully.
Now if the Oilers win, that pads their cushion on us (their division rivals) who are also essentially the ones directly behind them for that 3rd Pacific spot. 8 pts up is pretty hard to make up when you only have 1 more game against them. Nashville merely loses one of their games in hand, but even then they would only need to go 1-0-1 in order to jump us.