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Now if only Turco would be put in on Friday against us and does what he normally does at the Joe, he'd be my favorite NHL goaltender.

Eastern Conference: 1. WSH - 105 2. PHI - 103 3. BOS - 99 4. PIT - 102 5. TBL - 99 6. MTL - 93 7. BUF - 92 8. NYR - 91 -------- 9. CAR - 87 Western Conference 1. VAN - 113 2. SJS - 103 3. DET - 102 4. NSH - 97 5. PHX - 96 6. LAK - 96 7. ANA - 93 8. CHI - 93 -------- 9. DAL - 91 Tonight's matchups: NYI-BOS TOR-NJD FLA-WSH DET-CAR STL-CHI EDM-CGY SJS-ANA PHX-LAK Notes: - A win for Detroit in regulation against Carolina will cause Buffalo to clinch a spot in the playoffs. Carolina can still tie New York in points with a regulation loss tonight, but they would have to win their next two games in Regulation or OT, while New York gains no points in their final two games in order for Carolina's ROW to be higher than New York's. - Calgary must win tonight against Edmonton in order to stay alive. They can finish the season with 95 points, but the only way they can make the playoffs is if one of Dallas or Chicago either loses out or doesn't gain more than one point in OT/SO. - Phoenix and Los Angeles play each other tonight and whoever wins will clinch a spot in the playoffs with 98 points. Check this over...I deduced these notes myself. Let me know if I made any mistakes.

Beat me to it. +1 for you sir.

And to think I had a chance to be at that game.

Oops, my bad. Thanks for catching that mistake.

Theoretically, it could very well happen if we played like we did against Nashville against them. Right now, the top 3 are obviously clinched, so that gives us 1. Vancouver 2. San Jose/Detroit 3. San Jose/Detroit If San Jose gains the same amount of points as us in these last four games, we will take 2nd. We have one more ROW than them so as long as they don't get one or more points than us in the last four games and we don't decide more than one game in a shootout, we will still take 2nd. Now for 7th/8th: Chicago has 92 points and can potentially gain 8 more points and they play Montreal, St. Louis, and Detroit twice. Anaheim has 93 points and can only gain 6 and they play San Jose once and Los Angeles twice. Calgary has 91 points and can only gain 4 and they play Edmonton and Vancouver. Chicago can achieve these final totals at 92 points with 4 games remaining 4-0-0 = 100 3-0-1 = 99 3-1-0 = 98 2-0-2 = 98 1-0-3 = 97 2-2-0 = 96 1-1-2 = 96 2-1-1 = 95 1-3-0 = 94 0-3-1 = 93 0-4-0 = 92 Since Calgary can only get to 95, Chicago has to effectively lose at least 3 of their last four games in regulation in order to miss the playoffs, while Calgary has to win out. Anaheim has to essentially have a meltdown to miss the playoffs as well. Dallas on the other hand can still gain 8 points to add to their current total of 89 to hit 97. If three of those are ROW's and Chicago hits 97, Dallas makes it while Chicago doesn't. tl;dr version: If Chicago gets 96 points or better, they're most likely in, and if they get 98, they're definitely in. The way I see it though, if they lose to Montreal tomorrow and St. Louis, we could put a dent in their playoff hopes with at least one win in regulation. If Dallas loses more than one game in regulation, they're out, and Calgary plain needs to win out to have any shot in hell. LGW.

Yeah, great job, OP. Way to jinx him. Unless this is Dats' way of trolling the Preds and he'll actually play.

Crosby Letang Fleury Jokes aside, Franzen (I'd sure love for him to be a part of this team right now...) Weber Miller/Lundqvist

I believe we need to fire McCrimmon. That said, I'm with everyone who has said the regular season doesn't mean s*** as long as you get to the playoffs. This team becomes an entire new beast when it makes the playoffs, it's just a matter of whether or not they decide to play with the intensity they have showed to us in Cup run post-seasons. And also like someone said, I believe last night's game might be what this team needed. A sort of angry "chip-on-their-shoulder" mentality that will force them to bring the playoff intensity to the last 5 games of the season.

Today is Mr. Hockey's Birthday, so I'm guessing that's the inspiration for the thread.

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Hey guys, remember when we were down 0-4 to Pittsburgh last Monday? Needless to say, the refs aren't helping us out too much.

Abdelkader must have some wicked gas to have that stun Halak so much.

No wonder the Blues have so many shots goals, we can't clear the ******* zone to save our lives.

I guess overdramatic wasn't the best word choice. Either way, as I said, I kind of get why people don't like him, but f*** 'em. KD is the man.

Watched the highlights of the game on nhl.com and I have to say a couple things. 1) Good to see Kenny doing some games on Versus. 2) I can see why people don't like him. He's got an over-dramatic emphasis at times and I could tell I wasn't as on-edge as I would be for a scoring chance because it wasn't during a game in which the Red Wings were playing. I'm going to have to pay attention during tomorrow's game to see if it's the same or if the on-edge feeling kind of blocks out his quirks that other teams' fans might disapprove of. 3) I really hope that this means he's going to be doing some games in the playoffs. I'd love to see him during some games over Doc and Joe Beninati any day of the week. A few of the VS. play-by-play announcers this year were pretty good though; whoever did our game on Hockey Day in America Sunday against Minnesota, to name one. Either way, go Kenny.

God, I remember the bar I was at just went ******* apes*** when that happened.

Is Brickley the guy that's actually somewhat tolerable on the Bruins' telecast?

I keep watching the hit at the end of the video in slow motion and really the only thing I see wrong with that check is that he a) left his feet, and b) doesn't know how to check properly anymore. If anything, the back of his arm grazed the top of his head and knocked his helmet off. I'm sure the resulting action of his ear being damaged was because of the helmet being ripped off. Those ear straps can do some damage, I'd imagine.

I would say that it would be too biased, but Eddie Olczyk calls every other game on Versus, so it's probably not that big of a stretch since he called that game last week. Here's hoping, but I probably won't get to watch anyway, at least not with sound.

Yeah I think it will show one matchup per day.

STOP IT RIGHT HERE. That's been there for a couple of weeks.

From the Sharks HF Boards: http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=894743

Forum schizophrenic?

My curious and mathematical mind took some time to create a spreadsheet that takes the current standings (as of 3/22/11), and calculates how many points each team in the playoff race is on pace for. For those who are interested, I took each team's overall record, their last ten record, and their record against each team remaining on the schedule and calculated percentages for their ability to gain points against these teams. I took some averages and did some math and figured out what the playoff race might look like if each team played on pace for the remainder of the season. This is what I came up with: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL STANDINGS 1. Vancouver - 120 2. San Jose - 107 3. Detroit - 106 4. Los Angeles - 104 5. Phoenix - 102 6. Nashville - 102 7. Anaheim - 100 8. Chicago - 99 9. Dallas - 99 10. Calgary - 94 (No matter what, Phoenix would have more wins in this situation, which scares me because we'd play Nashville... ) According to my calculations, which are based on algorithms designed to calculate point totals that teams are on pace to have by the end of the season. if a team is doing better as of recent, their percentage to gain points is higher, as is if they have a better season record and if they have gained more points against an upcoming opponent over the season series. These percentages are then averaged and a decimal is produced, which tells me how many points down the stretch can be added to their current total. tl;dr version: Essentially, the algorithms calculate these totals using the Last 10 games stat, season series and overall record. There are a few situations where Chicago misses the playoffs while Dallas makes it, one of which being my favorite option, that being Detroit wins their last three games vs. Chicago, which gives Detroit 108 points and Chicago only 96. Chicago's situations to attain 11 pts in 9 games: -> 5-3-1, 99 pts, 45 wins overall -> 4-0-4, 99 pts, 44 wins overall -> 3-1-5, 99 pts, 43 wins overall -> 2-0-7, 99 pts, 42 wins overall Dallas' situations to attain 13 pts in 9 games and make the playoffs: -> 6-2-1, 99 pts, 46 wins overall -> 5-1-3, 99 pts, 45 wins overall -> 4-0-5, 99 pts, 44 wins overall Any situation with less wins down the stretch would give them less wins than Chicago, thus keeping them out of the playoffs. If tied, it would depend on GF, which Chicago would likely win since they are ahead right now by about 30 goals. Thus, Dallas needs to go 6-2-1 or better in order to make the playoffs. Chicago can still make the playoffs with a 3-1-5 record or a 2-0-7 record if Dallas does any worse than above because they would have less than 99 points. I also calculated these for my optimal situation as I stated above, where we beat Chicago each game for the rest of the season: WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL STANDINGS 1. Vancouver - 120 2. Detroit - 108 3. San Jose - 107 4. Los Angeles - 104 5. Phoenix - 102 6. Nashville - 102 7. Anaheim - 100 8. Dallas - 99 9. Chicago - 96 (99 if they lose in OT or SO) 10. Calgary - 94 And if you were curious, the East doesn't change one bit if everything goes on pace.