lordstanley

If the Wings lose in regulation and NYI hangs on to their 3-2 lead over Rangers, the Wings are pretty much done. Would need to outpoint NYI and Wash by 3 pts each over the final 4 games.

Flyers appear to have given up. Losing 6-0 to Montreal. Torts must be exploding

Wings were the better team for first 36 minutes. But a minute of pressure by the Caps and …a brain cramp in final seconds and … 2-0 after 2. Practically the season on the line the next 20 minutes.

Whoa, NYI up 3-0 over the Rangers. Adds to the pressure.

Final 9 minutes almost played without a whistle, until 10 seconds left. 0-0 after 1. Wings were the better team and Compher had a couple of good chances back to back near the end.

4th was his best inning so far. 1-2-3 with 2 Ks.

Tonight’s the 2nd of what I consider to be 3 straight must-win games. Seider has the flu but is expected to play.

Woohoo, Leafs win! Pens probably reasonably happy with a point though.

Pens head to overtime with the Leafs, point in 9 straight games. That’s what you need to do when you can sniff the playoffs.

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Damn, Leafs, just coughed up a 2-1 lead. Tied 2-2 with 6 minutes to go.

Our Leafs are trailing the Penguins 1-0 after 1.

Yeah, it's a coin flip. Gun to my head, I have them just missing: Beat Washington, lose to Pittsburgh, lose to Toronto, beat Montreal, OT loss to Montreal. 89 points. Miss by 2 points.

- Wings get 6 pts in final 5 games to get up to 90 - Wash and Philly each get 6 pts or fewer in their final 5 (Wash)/4 (Philly) games so they're out - NYI gets 5 pts in next 4 games to get up to 90 but trail the RW tiebreaker to the Wings - Pitt gets 6 pts in next 4 games to get up to 89 and would win a RW tiebreaker to the Wings - Game 82, NYI just needs a point to get up to 91 to beat out the Wings and Pitt just needs a point to get up to 90 to beat out the Wings. An overtime game would suit them both fine and kill the Wings. - This scenario could play out with different Red Wing final point totals than 90, just showing a very plausible one

Sens win! Wings are back in playoff position. NYI - 85 pts with 5 to go Det - 84 pts with 5 to go Pitt - 83 pts with 5 to go Wash - 83 pts with 5 to go Phil - 83 pts with 4 to go

Caps tied with Ottawa 2-2 with 2 minutes to go.

Right. That would get them to 88. And it is unlikely they will pick up a point in Toronto. So would still leave them probably having to get 3 out of 4 points from Montreal to end the season. Interestingly, NYI plays Penguins the final night of the East's season, the Wednesday, a day after the Wings' Tuesday finale. The Caps-Flyers wrap up their season on the Tuesday too, playing each other. Could be a scenario the Wednesday night where both the Isles and Pens are in with a point each - pass it around for 60 minutes a la Germany-Austria '82?

By my calculation, 4 wins out of 5 will be mathematically enough for the Wings IF two of those wins are in regulation over Washington and Pittsburgh. No matter what the rest of the teams do in their other games. EDIT: Oops, that's only true if the Caps drop at least point today to Ottawa.

1 down, 5 to go. I'm glad accuracy at shooting at empty nets isn't a playoff tiebreaker.

Right. And disappointingly, the only real difference Larkin's return has made is that they've won at least a few games here and there and they've been more competitive in most games. 4-11-2 over 17 games and I think Larkin missed just 8? So maybe 3-4-2 in the two games before he got hurt + the games since his return. Still not very good.

There was no reason at all to think that a team that was #11 overall in points, a strong goal differential, 4th overall in goals scored, had plenty of scoring depth, veteran experience, and started 2024 at 16-4-2 …would then be a bottom 3 team for the next 17 games. If they had simply matched Arizona, Montreal, Chicago or Columbus over that span they’d be sitting pretty for a playoff spot.

Points since February 28: Carolina- 27 Dallas - 26 NYR- 25 Colorado - 25 Tampa- 24 Nashville - 24 Boston - 23 Los Angeles - 23 Toronto -21 St. Louis - 21 NYI - 21 Pittsburgh- 21 Buffalo- 21 Vancouver - 19 Florida- 19 Winnipeg - 19 Vegas - 19 Minnesota - 19 Washington- 19 Arizona - 18 Seattle -17 Ottawa- 17 Montreal- 16 Philadelphia - 14 Columbus - 14 Chicago - 14 New Jersey- 12 Anaheim - 11 Calgary - 10 Detroit- 10 San Jose - 7