If you love end-of-season hockey and compelling playoff races, a free tip for the final weeks of the season: ignore the Eastern Conference and set your sights out West.
hanging on by a thread. That’s taken some juice out of any potential wild-card race, though it’s not entirely out of the question.
The Central Division race sees three teams separated by just five points, with chasing Nashville on anThe current No. 5 seed is just four points ahead of the current No. 8 seed . To that end, I figured it would be interesting to simulate out the rest of the season and show just how many potential outcomes are still in the proverbial cards. For each team, let's look at their possible seeding outcomes and probability distributions of first-round opponents.The first-round fate of the team currently in the Western Conference driver’s seat is still a colossal question mark.
Right now, three teams define their plausible first-round draws: the most likely being Nashville, followed by Vegas and Los Angeles.They may be one of the favourites to win the Stanley Cup, but Jared Bednar’s team has very little insight into what game 83 and on may bring. This team could outright win the conference or finish as low as third in the division – in fact, owing to Nashville’s recent blistering run, there is still an outside chance the Avalanche enter as a wild-card team.
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