With the regular season winding down, the playoff picture still hasn't fully taken shape. AndrewBerkshire takes a look at some of the teams still vying for a wild card spot down the stretch.
A lot of what’s left in the season comes down to the math of how points are dolled out in the NHL. It’s easy to look at the Blue Jackets and think that since they’re only a few points out with eight games left, there’s enough time to make up ground. However, you also have to account for how many points the Canadiens and Hurricanes are going to accumulate over that time.
Dallas is in a similarly strong position; the Stars need just four points as well, though they have just seven games to do so. Still, you would expect getting four points of an available 14 should be a relatively easy task for Dallas. How things shake out over the last stretch of the season is going to have a lot to do with the strength of schedule each team has left. We can contrast that with how they’ve played this season, as well as by how they’ve played over the last 25 games to get a more recent idea.
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