Lost in the results last night are Colorado winning.
That's good to drive another nail in the Coyotes coffin. Screw you Morris and Doan.
Also means that if Florida beats Tampa, and Colorado beats Minnesota, Colorado passes Tampa at the bottom of the standings. Since a Tampa win or loss doesn't matter to Flames fans at this point, Colorado leapfrogging means a team in our division conference next year, has that much less of a chance to win the draft lottery (though they still may pick 3rd) for whatever that is worth.
Plus, was going to be flat out cheering, now that the Flames are done I can, for Colorado anyways. Hope Colorado and Columbus (with an OTL) can punt Parise and Suter and the $100m they each make, to the golf course. A side benefit of that should also be that it throws another conference team into disarry going into the offseason.
So:
CAR gets a point vs Pit
FLA beat TB
NSH beat CLB (in OT or S/O)
COL beat MIN
Means Colorado leapfrogs Tampa to be a spot ahead of us. Carolina and Nashville also leapfrog us.
CLB gets in the playoffs with the single point.
Minnesota fails to get in the playoffs with a monumental choke job in the last week.
FLA
TB
COL
CGY
then would be the order headed into the lottery.
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