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29 Teams Still In The Race
by Paul on 01/28/08 at 03:38 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
Consider that last year, the gap between the No. 1 team at the break (for those with short memories, it was the Nashville Predators, believe it or not) and the 30th-place Philadelphia Flyers was 44 points. This year, it is 36 — pretty close in other words.
A more telling measure is the gap between second-best and second-worst teams at the All-Star break. Last year, it was 32 points.
This year, it’s only 21 points (from the No. 2 Ottawa Senators down to the No. 29 Tampa Bay Lightning). Normally, you’d think that a team lingering at the bottom of the conference standings such as Tampa wouldn’t be harboring any playoff thoughts whatsoever, with about a third of the schedule to play, but you’d be wrong.
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