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Originally Posted by Robbob
Just looking at the schedule, if you just take ANA, CGY, COL, DAL, LA, MIN, SJ, and STL there are 184 games left on the schedule that involve those teams. 40 of those games involve head to matchups with those teams.
Two ways to look at it. Potential for lots of extra points or if won in regulation points taken off the board. Calgary is actually in the least amount of those head to head games.
Anaheim 10
Calgary 7
Colorado 10
Dallas 12
LA 9
Minny 11
SJ 11
STL 10
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Nice work, I was looking into this as well and Dallas, Minnesota and St Louis will all be playing the California teams more than we do along with their own divisional teams. They have the toughest schedules going forward and these teams will all be taking points from each other which will help us especially if most of these games end in regulation.
The current pace to get in is 97 points but I could see it lowering to 95-96 points with all these head to heads. The good thing for our team is that we have the opportunity to play for 4 playoff positions whereas the Central teams only have 3. There’s s couple things going for us that gives us higher odds than other teams I would say from an optimist’s standpoint.