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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Both Nashville and Vancouver have better winning %.
Vancouver would then rank 3rd in the Pacific, with Winnipeg and Nashville being the wild card teams.
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They are all effectively tied.
The difference is that the Flames have played 1 more game (and Jets one more than them). If the Preds or Canucks played the extra game(s) to even things up:
~50% chance they win and achieve a better pt %
~11% chance they OT/SO L and achieve identical pt%
~39% chance they lose and achieve a worse pt %
Through 69 games, the Flames had a better pt% than both teams, whether you delete the 1st game of the season or the most recent.
And of course, this is all based on an imperfectly balanced schedule (even less so than the current 82 gp which is imperfect to begin with).
They are effectively tied.