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Originally Posted by dino7c
There are always bad teams...playoffs will be 90-96 points as usual. Some will go up and some will go down.
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But the point is that the West has had a very strong set of intentionally tanking teams (Sharks, Blackhawks, Ducks) combined with some unintentionally bad teams (Preds and Kraken). The Flames attempting to tank below those 5 teams this year didn't work.
What Team Tank needs to hope for next season is that all of those teams take a step up the standings and make room for the Flames to drop.
I don't think the Canucks will switch to tank mode and the other teams that are newly signaling rebuild are in the east (Flyers, Islanders, Bruins).