We are on pace to finish with 64 points this season. Last year we finished with a 66 point pace over 82 games. These are the two worst finishes points percentage wish in I don't even know how long? Probably even before Lou took in over in 87?
We hit at least 70 points every year of the Shero/Hynes era. Goaltending is a LEGIT excuse, but nothing else really is. I mean, we were winning more when Hughes was injured (which is before the goaltending really bottomed out) for that 1.5 months than we are now. Dougie getting injured for 1.5-2 months is also not a good enough excuse and the weakest excuse of all would be the covid protocols and everybody who ended up on the covid list. EVERY team has had to deal with that to some degree. And we don't know when the next normal season will be. Even the league continues it's recent policy of not testing asymptomatic players going forward into next year, I'm sure they'll likely still have to test players when crossing the borders to play, which is exactly how Jack ended up on the covid list last week before the Canada trip.
I can already imagine two or three guys getting popped with a negative test and ending up in protocol before a 4 game Canadian road trip next year.
We could finish with 70 points this year, but we'd basically have to get points at an NHL.500 pace over the last 33 games. And I can already see that rescuing the coaches and certain players. ''Well we had a playoff point percentage over the last 30 games of the year'' which is like right up there with ''Well, Schneider was a .920% for 16 games to end the season'' and ''Yeah but did you see Zacha's last third of the season? Man it was GREAT!'' and our PP has already went from 31st or 32nd up to 25th or 26th lol. ''Yeah the power play was 5th best in the league from New Years till the end of the season!''.
