Weekend Playoff Ramifications

To the best of my ability and I am sure I made a mistake somewhere but:

Nothing to play for teams: Caps, Pens, BJ's, Habs, Rags, Hawks and Wild.

Sens- Need 2 points to secure 2nd place (home ice). Sat. vs Rags, Sun AT Isles. Don't think they want to wait till Sunday.

B's- Need to beat Caps to secure 3rd seed and a win and Sens lose both games.

Leafs- Needs 2 points to secure spot. If they only get 1 and Bolts get 4, then both will have 94 points and 30 ROW, then honestly don't know the tie breaker. Sat. vs Pens, Sun. vs BJ's

Bolts Need to win both and hope Leafs only get 1 point in 2 games. Fri. vs Habs, Sun. vs Swords

Isles Needs prayers.

Blues- Needs 1 point in last 2 games to secure 3rd. Sat AT Canes, Sun vs Avs

Ducks- One game left. Need a win to secure 1st place or a loss by the Oil. Sun vs Kings

Oil- needs 2 reg wins and a Duck loss for 1st or 1 point to secure 2nd spot. Sat at Nucks, Sun vs Nucks

Sharks- need a win vs Flames and hope Oil losses both to get 2nd.

Flames- need a win vs Sharks to secure the 1st WC

Preds- pretty much stuck where they are.

So, I look at the Oil for example beating the Nucks Sat. then that sets up the Ducks having to beat the Kings Sunday for the 1st seed. Kings would love nothing more than to knock them off. Sens, in my mind would love to beat the Rags Saturday to go ahead and secure the 2nd seed. Just thoughts.

7" of heavy wet snow overnight Doc... come visit, keep your clubs at home    

Thanks for the breakdown.

Provided that the Bolts 2 wins were in regulation.

If that's the case, the next tiebreaker is head-to-head on the season...which just happens to be 2-2.

Then the next tiebreaker would be goal differential which is right now Leafs +8, Bolts +3.

The greater differential between goals for and against for the entire regular season.

essentially my statement was correct that the Bugs have the tie breaker in a tied with 94 points situation. it is just the 4th NOT the 3rd . I will always defer to Lippsman's stats and info

btw, most EXCELLENT breakdown, Doc. "EVERYTHING you NEED to KNOW about PLAYOFF POSITIONS is IN THIS THREAD!!!"

H2H is tied. Leafs beat them on Dec 29 and Mar 16. Bolts won on Oct 25 and Apr 6. It's goal differential that would decide things.

Great work GASD. I can't figure out this lame playoff system.

Isles Needs prayers

actually IF all three teams, Leaf, Bugs and Weenies, ended up TIED @ 94 points, the "Coney Island Weenies" would have the ROW @ 39 vs the other two's 38 

nice info doc

Trem$endous info here, saved me a lot of work! I think the sens are the best play here, but their day game record may not jive!

Good read.

Thanks a lot

Thanks for the info Doc   

Okay. So I think there's only one thing left to decide. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but...

1st round matchups are:

Habs/Rangers
Pens/Jackets
Caps/Leafs (if they lose tomorrow) or Bruins (if the Leafs get a single point)
Sens/Leafs or Bruins

Hawks/Preds
Ducks/Flames
Wild/Blues
Oilers/Sharks

Done...will be interesting if the Leafs can get over the hangover from tonight and get at least 1 point tomorrow. Babs would rather play the Sens than the Caps I would think. 

I believe Edm can overtake Ducks for first in division

 

Caps/Leafs (if they lose tomorrow) or Bruins (if the Leafs get a single point)

 

Babs would rather play the Sens than the Caps I would think. 

 

So.......we should assume Leafs would / should try to beat BJs tomorrow to try to position themselves to play Sens instead of Caps?

 

Great thread btw Doc