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Big Games Today & Who Plays Who
by Paul on 02/28/09 at 10:30 AM ET
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Some big games today, including early matchups between Washington/Boston and Florida/New Jersey starting at 1:00pm ET.
A few of the ‘keys’ I look at when trying to decide what playoff bubble teams will actually make it into the second season is road/home games left and who are their opponents in these games.
The NHL provided a chart listing those key features and you can view it below along with today’s NHL schedule.
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That’s a pretty cool chart. The NHL should make something like that available all the time on their website. It’d be easy to generate automatically.
Some things I noticed:
- Vancouver only has three games left against the Elite Four (yes, that’s a Pokemon reference—deal with it), and four games left against Colorado. They won’t catch Calgary, but they’ll easily separate themselves from the rest of the playoff bubble.
- Columbus might be in trouble. Seven of their 20 remaining games are against the Elite Four, and another game against Boston. If they don’t get a bunch of points against those teams, they won’t make the playoffs.
- Nashville is in the same boat—seven of 20 against Elite Four, and another against Washington. Add in that they’re already four points back of Columbus, and the outlook is grim.
- I’d been expecting Anaheim to miss, but now I’m reconsidering. Three games against San Jose is tough, but the rest of their schedule looks almost as good as Vancouver’s. Five games against Colorado and Phoenix, and two more against a badly banged up Dallas team (they won the first game against them earlier today).
- Minnesota and LA have a whole mess of games on the road.
So, my guess right now would be, in order of points:
1. San Jose
2. Detroit
3. Calgary
4. Chicago
5. Vancouver
6. Edmonton
7. Minnesota
8. Anaheim
I’m torn over switching Edmonton and Minnesota. They have three games against each other, so it really could go either way.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 02/28/09 at 07:07 PM ET