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The Wide Open West
by Paul on 02/09/09 at 05:40 PM ET
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from Chris Johnston of the CP via Yahoo,
There may never have been more believers in the NHL’s Western Conference. At least not in February.
Even though the season is nearly two-thirds done, every team in the West still thinks it has a chance to play into the spring. Emotions across the conference have been subject to a yo-yo effect as bubble team after bubble team shoots up the standings while on a hot streak, only to fall back when things cool off.
The one constant has been a tight grouping of teams in the bottom half.
“You look at the standings and nobody’s really dropping away from it,” Columbus Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock said Monday. “The three or four teams that looked like they were leaking oil maybe two weeks ago have tightened up.
“You come to the realization that you’re playing 82 playoff games just to get in to the playoffs.”
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