[SuperMatt18]

I'm not sure 6-10-1 and 84 points is bad enough though.

You have to get below the Islanders (whose roster is pretty ugly right now) and they are at .515, 9th place Boston is .500.

Detroit is 3-7-0 in their last 10 too and have the hardest remaining schedule, Islanders have the 5th hardest schedule remaining.

I still think you'll have to be at 82 points to guarantee bottom 10. Which is 5-11-1 and that's going to be tough.

In terms of the underlying play they've had a bad stretch of games that's been magnified by maybe the hardest stretch of the season in terms of quality of competition (Toronto, Colorado x 2, Washington, Tampa Bay, Florida, Carolina, Dallas since Feb 1) and in the games against other teams they got a lead and tried to hold on (Montreal, Vancouver, Kraken x 2).

IMO that's been a bit of an issue of late, just invite pressure and get absolutely run over when they go into a shell to try to hold a lead. Cost them against Vancouver, and earlier against Seattle. Almost cost them against Montreal and Philly (although they had enough of a lead in that one they could sit back).