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Originally Posted by Joborule
Crucial road trip starts to try to maintain pace with other teams in the division/conference. With US Thanksgiving approaching in a week, I believe it was Darryl that said something along the lines that teams that are going to make the playoffs have to be in, or within the playoff spots by that checkpoint in the schedule.
Fair amount of competitive matchups along the way. See how they do.
Hopefully +.900 goaltending from Markstrom is on the trip.
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I don't know who all has said it, but I first heard it from Peter Maher only a couple of years after the lockout shortened season.
I am not sure how applicable that saying is anymore though. At least there seem to be teams that buck that trend more often. The most immediate example the comes to mind is the St.Louis Blues the year they won the cup where they were putrid all the way until January and just turned course 180 degrees.