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Originally Posted by Wolven
I am not sure we are looking at the same schedule. The rest of January doesn't look that easy to me. Not only is it a lot of road games, it also has 3 back-to-back road games with the tougher opponent on the second night.
Breaking it down: - We beat the Ducks!
- Now is the second half of a back to back with this game being start of a home and home against the Kings. It would be good to win our home game but I wouldn't bet on winning either game.
- The Blackhawks should be a win for us.
- After the game in Chicago we do a back-to-back into St.Louis for a super rare double-away games against the Blues. The Blues will want those 4 points (potential 8 point swing) to try to launch themselves over us and the Canucks.
- The last 3 road games this month are Jets and a back-to-back Wild and Jets. I would expect to lose them all.
- But our last 3 home games of the month are Sabres, Capitals, Ducks. That should get us a couple of wins.
My guess is that January ends up around 4-8-2 after losing the first two home games and I feel that might be a bit optimistic.
Feb should be better as it is mostly home games but the opponents are 4 playoff teams, 3 bubble teams, and 1 bottom feeder. 3-4-1 would be a safe expectation for the month (but maybe we go 6-2 on the power of home ice advantage).
Then the start of March is the 4 remaining games of the 6 game road trip where I would really only expect 1 win against the Flyers on the whole road trip.
In short, I think our schedule from now to the Trade Deadline will be challenging and it wouldn't surprise me if we went 8-15-3. |
Wouldn't surprise you if this team played at a 0.365% win percentage prior to the trade deadline?
You realize only 1 team in the NHL is that bad right now, right?
The Flames have 12 points in the last 10 games.
Of the 18 teams currently below us, only 2 had more points in their last 10 and 1 team equal to us with 12. The Flames increased their lead on the other 15.
It will take an absolute miracle for things to go the way you're speculating. It's not based in realty whatsoever.