Pacific Power

[voyageur]

I think a lot of people came into the season with the notion that the Central was significantly better than the Pacific. And they do boast 3 of the 4 best teams in the Conference.

But if the playoffs started today, on points, 5 Pacific teams would be in and Gary would be pretty happy with the matchups: Nashville-Vegas, Winnipeg-Colorado, Calgary-Edmonton, Anaheim-San Jose. Now granted Dallas with games in hand would pass Vegas, but Knights are hot, and Stastny is about to join them. Hitchcock is getting results too, so the bottom 2 teams in the playoff race are trending up. San Jose has been streaky. Anaheim is rolling along, in spite of injuries. And well, Calgary, the cardiac kids are tops in the West. I'm not discounting Minnesota or Dallas, but it definitely seems possible that the Pacific could have 5 teams in the playoffs.

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[Pizza the Hutt]

The Pacific's demise has been greatly exaggerated.

 

[Kcb12345]

That's because early in the season the pacific was looking like trash

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

are the hottest teams in the league all in the Pacific?
maybe they get 5 teams this year

 

[snipes]

Those would be some ****ing awesome playoff matchups

 

[Pens x]

The most boring division in hockey

 

[Bounces R Way]

The most boring division in hockey

 

[CraigsList]

Alberta is on the rise.

Edmonton wasn’t going to with TM, but the coaching changed has lit a fire on the team.

 

[NeverForget06]

The most boring division in hockey

Two of the most exciting offensive defencemen in the league (Burns + Karlsson), the leagues best player (McDavid), the league's best rookie (Petterson), one of the league's more entertaining players in Thachuk.

Pacific always catches flak because nobody from the east actually watches the games.

 

[Coffey]

Do Oiler and Flames fans join forces with the Ducks in this thread??

 

[KCC]

The Kings are bad, yes, but every other team is doing respectable even Vancouver and Arizona who are on the rise. The division is far better than people from the East realize.

 

[KlefDown]

every year fans say the Pacific is the worst division in hockey, every year the Pacific proves them wrong

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

the Pacific is still pretty bad, but they're better than the metro now

 

[winnipegger]

Maybe Mcllelan really was holding them back. There are new coach bounces sometimes though. If Oil make playoffs that is a big turnaround.

 

[Duffalufagus]

the Pacific is still pretty bad, but they're better than the metro now

So bad they would send 5 teams to the playoffs right now.

Quality analysis here

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

So bad they would send 5 teams to the playoffs right now.

Quality analysis here

so if Minnesota wins their next game, the Pacific stops being good?

 

[Duffalufagus]

so if Minnesota wins their next game, the Pacific stops being good?

No they are bad right now. You said so.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

No they are bad right now. You said so.

their combined goal differential is -24 so yeah, that's not great

 

[Mez]

Do Oiler and Flames fans join forces with the Ducks in this thread??

Yes

 

[Mobiandi]

4 of the top 5 Pacific teams have a record of either 7-2-1 or 8-2-0 in their last 10. Pretty amazing

 

[Coffey]

Yes

 

[tarapoto2006]

Two of the most exciting offensive defencemen in the league (Burns + Karlsson), the leagues best player (McDavid), the league's best rookie (Petterson), one of the league's more entertaining players in Thachuk.

Pacific always catches flak because nobody from the east actually watches the games.

Plus, you know, this undrafted Norris contender named Mark Giordano who's outplaying both of those guys this year.

 

[Alwalys]

Been telling yall, the Pacific was completely buried in road games early on this season. That was dragging their performance down.

 

[blankall]

The most boring division in hockey

You obviously didn't see the Flames score two goals in the last minute of the game tonight.

 

[aufheben]

So bad they would send 5 teams to the playoffs right now.

Quality analysis here

None of those 5 teams are Nashville or Winnipeg.