drwpreds
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Yes I saw that post and in your opinion the Preds are 7th if I recall among the 16 playoff teams. Your entitled to that opinion. But Vegas disagrees with you as well as every talking head I have seen. The highest I have seen the Preds ranked is 12 and most think they are 15 or 16. And I think that's about right. If I were to rank the 30 teams in the league That's about where I would put them at this point due to the failures of Those western teams I mentioned. If you Only consider the last 15 games of the season They would again be at the 17 - 20 where I thought they would be preseason. I Predicted preseason the P{reds would have 97 points and miss the playoffs by 8. Since 2015 it took 99 points for the Jets to take WC2 I thought the West and central in particular set up to up that margin. That's why im a little disappointed that 96 took WC1. In the old NHL of no 3 point games 90 points was almost assured a playoff spot with that considered The bar is now 100 points really. And honestly if the Preds were able to do anything whatsoever in OT They would have been north of 100.
For the record, I had the Preds 8th- I wouldn't argue with them anywhere in the 8-10 range but no lower than that.
And you mention that Vegas disagrees with me on that- well, no they don't. All of the vegas articles are odds to win the Conference or Cup. Because the Preds are in the West with 6 of the top 8 teams in the league, their odds are going to be lower than many teams in the East who aren't as good as the Preds. I guarantee you our odds would be much better in Vegas if we were in the Eastern conference. My rankings in that post were pure power rankings, not playoff odds.
And by the way it is NEVER going to take 105 points to make the playoffs- its almost an impossibility unless you had a bunch of teams with 40 points for the season...