[Caged Great]

Putting another thing in this thread.

Remaining schedules of the other teams - Bold = playoff teams

For the Wild Card spots

Nashville - Toronto, Minnesota, St. Louis, Islanders, Dallas, Winnipeg
St. Louis - Arizona, Colorado, Nashville, Winnipeg, Florida, Carolina, Colorado

Suffice it to say that St. Louis should take 3rd in the pacific rather easily because wow that's an easy schedule. So removing them from the equation, we are left with Nashville. We own the tiebreaker and we have a 1 point lead with 6 games remaining. If we go 3-3-0, they would need to go 4-2 to pass us. If they do so, the Flames will face Chicago barring some strange event like SJ going 0-6-0 the rest of the way or something similarly weird.

In the division

Edmonton - San Jose, Anaheim, LA, San Jose, Vancouver, Vancouver

Those gimme games against Vancouver and them having a 3 point lead makes it very unlikely that the Flames catch Edmonton.

San Jose - Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary

The Sharks do struggle against Vancouver for some reason, so it's possible that if the Flames win the games against the Sharks they could pass them. Uphill climb either way.

Anaheim - Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Calgary, Chicago, Los Angeles

Unless Calgary wins out, and the Ducks somehow lose 2 of the other games is the only way for the Flames to finish ahead of the Ducks. Not likely going to happen.


So how this will likely shake out based on the competition and the other team's schedules is that the Flames will face either Anaheim or Chicago in round 1. With Nashville and St. Louis cream puff remaining schedules, Chicago is looking more likely. The Flames will need a 4-2 record probably to avoid the Hawks.