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Western Conference Odds
by Alanah McGinley on 02/11/09 at 05:19 PM ET
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From Craig Custance at the Sporting News (h/t MSNBC):
There just isn’t a night off playing in the West.
“You look at the teams out there, even L.A. is playing good right now,” Chicago forward Patrick Kane told SportingNews.com. “They’re competing for a playoff spot. All those teams out there are pretty good, especially when you go to Canada, too, and you see those hostile environments. ... You have to be on your game and mentally focused.”
With help from SportsClubStats.com, which uses a formula to predict playoff probabilities, and a little inside information from Chicago winger Adam Burish, whose Blackhawks are wrapping up a road trip that took them to half the Western cities, we break down the bubble teams.
Dallas Stars
Games played: 52
Points: 59
Probability of making the playoffs: 71.4 percent
read on to find out everyone’s chances
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This is just me being a pedant, but SportsClubStats doesn’t use a formula to get those probabilities. They run a simulation about a million times and count the percentage of simulated runs where a team makes the playoffs. There’s a little more to it than that, but that’s the gist.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 02/11/09 at 08:21 PM ET