Elimination Pending

[The List Of Jericho]

For the fans of the teams that look destined to miss the playoffs....what’s the magic number looking like until it officially occurs?

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[clunk]

@Mayor Bee usually makes a thread every year in April.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

 

[Del Preston]

"Unofficially" the Oilers are out. Their max points is 94. Colorado is on pace for 95 as the second WC team.

 

[The List Of Jericho]

"Unofficially" the Oilers are out. Their max points is 94. Colorado is on pace for 95 as the second WC team.

Crazy...no one would have predicted that

 

[JLarucci23]

Hawks have been out since before Christmas....

 

[hangman005]

Well seeing as we were eliminated before the season began... *Checks standings* Ohhhhhhh

 

[Bandit]

Crazy...no one would have predicted that

Everyone outside Edmonton predicted it.

 

[The List Of Jericho]

Everyone outside Edmonton predicted it.

That they would be pretty much eliminated before game 70 roles around? Doubtful

 

[dangomon]

Crazy...no one would have predicted that

You mean that Colorado is on pace for 95 points??! Seriously though, no one would have predicted that.

 

[Pyrophorus]

Everyone outside Edmonton predicted it.

When? Later on you could say so
At season's start, everyone was saying they would vault past the 2nd round, maybe to the SCF

 

[tarheelhockey]

Well seeing as we were eliminated before the season began... *Checks standings* Ohhhhhhh

You guys might want to go easy on the trash talk of this nature.

 

[Kelly]

Everyone outside Edmonton predicted it.

Yeah.... No.

 

[westc2]

For the West:

Well I'd say Chicago needs to get at least 33 points in their final 18 games to make the playoffs. So a 92% point percentage. So they need at least 15 wins, with 3 loser points. I guess they'll pretty much be out once they go 2 more games without a point.

No other teams above them have official, or even probable elimination pending since it's so close.

 

[Aavco Cup]

It's actually referred to as a tragic number

 

[tarheelhockey]

Yeah.... No.

Wow, that’s just nuts.

 

[Mattilaus]

It's actually referred to as a tragic number

Sabres are so bad they don't even exist on the chart.

 

[Jason316]

Yeah.... No.

Vegas is getting cleaned out this year

 

[hangman005]

You guys might want to go easy on the trash talk of this nature.

What fun is that, this team will keep proving everyone wrong. "Vegas will make the playoffs next year".... Lottery Team hahaha

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

What fun is that, this team will keep proving everyone wrong. "Vegas will make the playoffs next year".... Lottery Team hahaha

 

[TheAngryHank]

For Detroit the magic number is 2018.

 

[tom leafers]

As a leafs fan, im not used to this level of certainty to make the playoffs.

 

[rajuabju]

I dont know what shocks me more... Vegas making it, or Chicago not. And by the extreme of each.

But both make me happy!

 

[ZJuice]

I want the Knights to win it all. Because all you other teams are mean to my Oilers

 

[talkinaway]

Found this page for the vultures circling around:

NHL Eastern Conference Losing Magic Numbers

That's for the east, but there's a corresponding page for the west. I have no idea how often they update it, but it's got Thursday's Pens@Bruins game in the stats.

If their math is right, the Coyotes would be eliminated if they lost 5 more games, assuming no other team lost. That seems close, but not quite right. With 48 points in 63 games played, if they lost the next 5, they could get at most 28 points in the remaining 14 games, for a total of 76 points. That would launch them into WC2 currently, but the Ducks (74 pts currently) play the Blues (74 pts currently), meaning one of those two teams has to get 76. But the Coyotes could still beat Anaheim on ROW. Perhaps there are more interactions among the Ducks/Blues/Avs(73)/Flames(73) that could force-feed some more points to those 4 teams.

Either way, March 11 is the earliest possible elimination day, and that requires a lot of teams to win and the Coyotes to lose.