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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Now the thing that might get them into the bottom 10 is if their poor road play continues. They are 13-6-3 at home (.659 point percentage at home), compared to 5-8-4 on the road (.412 on the road) and have 24 road games remaining vs 19 home games.
The other thing would be if they were to make a trade to move some of the veteran assets...
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It's interesting how on page 15 of the thread I pointed out that our home point percentage was 72.5% and after 2 loses it drops to 65.9%.
That right there dropped the Flames to 15th overall with only 7 more spots to drop to get into the top 10 of the draft. The only team in the 10 spots below us with a losing record right now is the Flyers.
Lightning - 1 point behind with 2 games in hand
Blues - 1 point behind but 2 less games to go, however they have a huge opportunity next week with a rare back-to-back homestand against the Flames
UTC - 2 points behind, even on games
Penguins - 2 points behind but 2 less games to go
Senators - 3 points behind, one game in hand and a 6-4-0 record in their last 10
Blue Jackets - 3 points behind, but 1 less game to go
Canadiens - 4 points behind, even on games, riding a 7-3-0 record in last 10
The Red Wings and Ducks are also both 6-4 in L10 and are only 5 points back.
The Rangers are still playing horribly this year but are still only 6 points back and you know they want to be back in the playoffs.
All of that information just goes to show that there are a number of teams looking to jump over the Flames and it won't take a significant losing skid to get 7 out of 10 of those teams to pass us in the standings.
Trading any of Andersson, Coleman, or Kadri would probably send the team into a freefall down the standings... but I do not think that is necessary at this time. Wait to see how the road trips pan out and if we continue to drop games at home then we'll likely be in the top 10 of the draft already.