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5 points out with 33 games left and people are acting like we’re still in the deficit we were with Green lol.
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@Pears You're correct, but it can be surprisingly hard to catch a team when they're playing decently. Although we're only a few points behind, we need to play better than teams that are already pretty decent teams, so we need to play quite well to catch stronger teams. It would be easy to make up 5 points against teams like Arizona or Montreal, but teams like Edmonton, Anaheim, LA, and Dallas don't lose nearly as often, making it surprisingly difficult to pass them all.
I find that it becomes pretty clear what kind of level we need to play at when you do the actual calculations of what it takes. Currently, we need to play at about a .650 level for the remainder of the year to catch up to the bottom of the playoff line. It would become a lot easier if we went on a 5-game winning streak right now though.
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I think it's worth noting that having games-in-hand is not necessarily a good thing with the compressed schedules caused by all the postponements. Having played more games earlier in the season might actually work in the Canucks favour in this particular situation. Some of the teams who haven't played as many games are going to be playing more than an average of one game every two days