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Originally Posted by Bingo
Pace to make playoffs 101 points
Pace to not draft top 10 95 points
Pace to not drat top 5 86 points
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Last year the 5 worst teams in terms of games under .500 on December 1st were
Chicago - 6 games under .500 finished second last 21 games under .500
Nashville - 5 games under .500, finished 3rd last 14 games under .500
Montreal - 5 games under .500, made the playoffs finishing 11 games over .500
San Jose - 4 games under .500, finished dead last 30 games under .500
Ottawa - 2 games under .500, finished in the playoffs 15 games over .500
Pittsburgh - 2 games under .500, finished 25th overall 2 games under .500
Seattle - 2 games under, finished 6 games under and 29th overall
Not as many really bad teams this year (Nashville is 5 games under as are the Flames) with Vancouver being 3 games under and two other teams being 1 game under). Last year only San Jose really accelerated their pace with Philly and Boston falling off a bit to 6 games under from 2 games and 1 game over respectively.
Unless the Flames are the Habs or the Sens of this year they are in a pretty good spot to likely finish bottom 5. Whatever most teams are at December 1st is kinda what they are at the end of the year, Sens and Habs last year were huge anomalies.