I had a feeling.
Why don't we put some numbers to this.
To have a 90% chance to get in at worst we can go 18-0-2 the rest of the way. And that still leaves about a 10% chance of missing.
To have a coin flip 50% chance of making it. We are looking at 16-2-2. Only 50% even with that kind of 20 game tear.
Basically anything less then 15 wins out of 20 is guranteed miss. Anything less then 17 and odds are against you making it.
So Deb and Jmac need to put it to bed. Steve and Dano too tomorrow. Would take a winning streak that we haven't seen almost ever.
Funny thing. Ottawa actually has the best chance outside the top 8 with a 20% chance. Everyone else is under 10%. Philly is pretty much no chance. Florida is extremely slim.
Boston holds all the cards still. No guarantee but the odds are in their favor.
In before real time updates tomorrow night of the scores of Philly, Ottawa, Florida, and Boston's games by Steve all night.
Then again, most of those games will end way later than ours. Florida/Buffalo ends before us though, I'm sure Steve will give us real time updates.
I swear to god the Devils crew didn't even talk about the playoffs this much back in 2011, with all the real time score updates of team's ahead of us and thinking they're gonna get in.
They didn't even really start talking about it until we finally got 8-6 points out in early March. If that team (that was red hot down the stretch) couldn't even make it in from 6 points back in the first or second week of March, I can't see how this team making it being 8-10 back before March is even realistic at all.
