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 Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 17 January 2024 10:49 |
| smyth260 wrote on Wed, 17 January 2024 09:59 |
It’s crazy that despite winning 8 in a row and 11 in a row we are just holdong onto a Wildcard spot. Yes, 4 games in hand on lots of teams but these games coming up against the Kraken and Flames are huge.
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It's the OT loser point working it's magic to keep the standings tighter than they should be.
Kings have 50 pts, 8 of them are OT loser points.
Flames have 47 pts, 5 of them are OT loser points.
Kraken have 47 pts, 9 of them are OT loser points.
Knights have 55 pts, 5 are OT loser points.
Oilers have 49 pts, 1 is an OT loser point.
So if the NHL counted an OT loss as a loss and didn't reward the team for losing in OT like I think they need to stop, the standings would be:
Canucks 58
Knights 50
Oilers 48
Kings 42
Flames 42
Kraken 38
Big difference. That's why the Oilers run is so incredible to make up as much ground as they did so fast because the NHL is designed to make it extremely hard to make up points.
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There's just no point doing a bunch of calculations on what would be if the league had a different method for distributing points. The current system, like it or not, is the system that we play in. There is a slight advantage to Wins and another to Regulation and Overtime wins, as those are the critical categories in deciding tie-breakers, so the Oilers are doing well to win more of their games ahead of the shootout, but there's no point in spending much time talking about how we'd be so much further ahead if there was no extra point, because it isn't going away, especially not this year.
The Oilers have put themselves in a position where they could conceivably catch Los Angeles and Las Vegas (who just lost Jack Eichel for a few weeks) by the end of January, but we still need to keep winning games. We dug a very deep hole early in the year, and that is the bigger issue for us in the standings, as opposed to extra points for losing in OT or winning in shootouts.
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