StarGirl Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 How about leave our goal as in to win all of our remaining games left rather than just thinking to clinch a play-off spot? Atleast, hope that Canucks can win most of the games left. Winning ALL of them would be obviously better though. I believe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Nope. There's a 19 point gap between us and Nashville, who are in 9th place, and seeing as they have 13 games left, they have 26 points left to spare, meaning we could miss the playoffs if they won 10 games, and we lost all of our remaining games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeriM Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 1 - Magic number thread. 2 - Even if Calgary can't catch us, Nashville still can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Bob Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 If noone in the division can catch us, we've clinched because we're automatically seeded third. Makes Nashville irrelevant. And why did you have to move all that crap in here and clutter up an otherwise perfectly good thread? Yeah, I didn't consider the division thing. I moved this here because there was this one, plus 3 more threads made that weren't pinned. They were cluttering up Canucks Talk and I know there will be more and more made, so to be fair I am going to merge them all to this one since this was first and is already pinned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Where's Wellwood Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Actually Yes. Your assumeing the other teams from 2-8 all win all of their games. Which would mean that none of them play eachother. Which in fact isn't mathematically possible, and due to Scheduleing isn't realalistic, therefor the canucks have clinched. I don't know why so many people +'d you but they probably weren't smart enough to realize this fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucksfan97 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Get rid of this junk, and put the Magic Number thread back. We don't want this crap here, and this was a good thread, before it came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodzillaDeuce Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 MAGIC NUMBER THREAD WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundy Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I don't know why everyone is making this so complicated. If either the Wild or the Flames win ALL their remaining games, the most they could get is 103 points. If we only get four more points, we fall behind them because both would hold the tiebreaker over us. As of right now, five points - even if we tied five games and lost all the rest - would give us 104 total, the division title, and a guaranteed third-place seed, regardless of what anyone else in the conference does. Simple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAILED-BY-THE-HAMMER Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 it would be awesome to say screw the "X" lets go for the "Y" simply outstanding road trip every team we beat is in a play-off position upset the ducks it would be nice to officialy clinch at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MashedBananas Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 it would be awesome to say screw the "X" lets go for the "Y" simply outstanding road trip every team we beat is in a play-off position upset the ducks it would be nice to officialy clinch at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleowin Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 For one, The Magic Number Thread is still here but its merged into one as I see. I was curious as too why there was 6 additional pages of posts. Thats absolutely nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucksfan97 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I feel like this should be here: Canucks can clinch division Wednesday, at the earliest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforhockey Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I don't know why everyone is making this so complicated. If either the Wild or the Flames win ALL their remaining games, the most they could get is 103 points. If we only get four more points, we fall behind them because both would hold the tiebreaker over us. As of right now, five points - even if we tied five games and lost all the rest - would give us 104 total, the division title, and a guaranteed third-place seed, regardless of what anyone else in the conference does. Simple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuckwit Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Apparently I'm not the only one who finds this problem interesting: here's a pertinent article on how difficult it is to determine when, exactly, a team clinches a playoff spot: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~tcrussel/documents/canai08.pdf They prove that than the media etc., who use simplistic calculations such as the Magic Number and division clinching, routinely report playoff clinching several days after it actually occurs. At the time the article was written, the authors claimed to have implemented the only complete solution to the NHL playoff clinching problem, so I don't know if this is available on any websites. Just to be clear, the Canucks have NOT yet clinched a playoff spot, but it's plausible they may still do so BEFORE they clinch the division. No-one has yet proved or disproved whether we can clinch before winning the division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodzillaDeuce Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Apparently I'm not the only one who finds this problem interesting: here's a pertinent article on how difficult it is to determine when, exactly, a team clinches a playoff spot: http://www.cs.uwater...nts/canai08.pdf They prove that than the media etc., who use simplistic calculations such as the Magic Number and division clinching, routinely report playoff clinching several days after it actually occurs. At the time the article was written, the authors claimed to have implemented the only complete solution to the NHL playoff clinching problem, so I don't know if this is available on any websites. Just to be clear, the Canucks have NOT yet clinched a playoff spot, but it's plausible they may still do so BEFORE they clinch the division. No-one has yet proved or disproved whether we can clinch before winning the division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiAd Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Dont we just need to reach 104 points to clinch the division? Minni has 13 games remaining, max of 26 points + 77 current = 103, ROW would be 41. So we need 5 points from 12 games OR if we got to 103 we would have more ROW points than Minni.....unless we picked up those 5 points from SO losses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleowin Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Sunday, March 13th, 2011: Magic Number Charts have been updated! CHI and ANA Dropped 1 Point! CHI dropped 0.5 Points! EDM has officially been eliminated from post-season contention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U62Charlie Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 We're in......no we're not.....we're in.......no we're not.......we're in...... Lets move on and watch the other teams fall off the chart that Shaelon has so gracefully calculated for us. Oh and GO CANUCKS GO!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van_City123 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Bye Edmonton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks :D Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 How can CHI drop 1 point and 0.5? Did you mean DAL dropped one point? ALSO PLEASE EVERYONE STOP FIGHTING OVER WHEN WE HAVE CINCHED we will have offically done it when there is an x or y beside the Canucks name until then this is stupid. Sunday, March 13th, 2011: Magic Number Charts have been updated! CHI and ANA Dropped 1 Point! CHI dropped 0.5 Points! EDM has officially been eliminated from post-season contention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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