I think he's missing the element of someone will emerge in that group and get to 93 points. If St. Louis holds that's your hurdle.
If every team is bad, it's likely one or two of them benefit by playing all the other cappy teams.
If the hurdle is 95 (might be 1-2 points high) the Oilers need to go 39-20-3 the rest of the way to get in. That's a 107 point pace.
Not a good plan to just assume the middling teams just stay at .500 with no one emerging.
Flames need to go 36-21-3 (103 point pace)
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