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March 13th Playoff Race Update

I'm about to go to bed and won't be around a computer until tomorrow afternoon, so I'm getting this post up tonight.

The Stars won, but so did St. Louis. Fortunately, the Wild lost in a shootout to Colorado and the Oilers lost to Atlanta on a breakaway scored by former Oiler, Marty Reasoner. And the Rangers beat Nashville, 4-2.

As a result, Dallas reclaims the 8th and final playoff spot, but St. Louis and Anaheim both have a game in hand on Dallas each.

Updated standings after the jump.

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Pos Team W L OTL GP GR Pts PtPct PrjPts MaxPts PtsRq'd PtPctRq'd
1 Detroit 44 15 9 68 14 97 0.713 117 125 --- ---
2 San Jose 43 13 10 66 16 96 0.727 119 128 --- ---
3 Calgary 40 22 6 68 14 86 0.632 104 114 1 0.029
4 Chicago 36 19 9 64 18 81 0.633 104 117 6 0.162
5 Columbus 35 27 6 68 14 76 0.559 92 104 11 0.387
6 Vancouver 34 23 8 65 17 76 0.585 96 110 11 0.318
7 Edmonton 32 27 8 67 15 72 0.537 88 102 15 0.494
8 Dallas 32 28 8 68 14 72 0.529 87 100 15 0.529
9 Nashville 33 30 5 68 14 71 0.522 86 99 16 0.565
10 Minnesota 32 28 7 67 15 71 0.530 87 101 16 0.527
11 St. Louis 31 28 8 67 15 70 0.522 86 100 17 0.561
12 Anaheim 31 30 6 67 15 68 0.507 83 98 19 0.627
13 Los Angeles 29 28 9 66 16 67 0.508 83 99 20 0.619

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Don't really need to worry bout anyone else

if we keep winning. Hopefully the team will slowly get back confidence.

"If you can't get up for this kind of game, Lord have mercy, you might not have a heartbeat"

-Jerome Bettis

by Mizzou12 on Mar 13, 2009 12:27 AM CDT reply actions  

A little OT:

Anyone got a guess on how the Stars will line up at full strength with everyone on this current roster available? (ignoring whatever happens in FA this offseason)

Remember to retire Fin's number, Mark.

by jonthefon on Mar 13, 2009 3:48 AM CDT reply actions  

Hmmm...

Good thoughts…

Ott-Ribs-Lehtinen
Morrow-Richards-Eriksson
Neal-Modano-Morrison
Barch-Peterson-Conner

Niskanen-Zubov
Daley-Robidas
Grossman-Fistric

If it’s the playoffs and you’re looking for a physical presence, I supposed you could go with Begin-Peterson-Barch on the 4th line, just not sure that Begin fits in if everyone is healthy… Conner is a great sparkplug to put in there, but I don’t know that he’s a full time player either.

"But the major difference is where Showalter tried to overthink everything Washington at times seems like he isn't thinking at all. " - rentz

by hillcrest on Mar 13, 2009 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions  

According to Razor this morning

Zubov’s probably gone until the end of the year, so your D-pairings would be:

Daley-Robidas
Niskanen-Grossman
Fistric-Sydor

Also, keep in mind Ribs and Morrow played on the same line quite a bit last year and had lots of success during the playoffs. Therefore, I think you’d swap Richards for Ribs and you’ll have your lines set.

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by Brandon Bibb on Mar 13, 2009 1:40 PM CDT up reply actions  

6 th anyone ???

still think the 6 th seed, if they can get there is best spot to be for this team.

Jim Wickersham

by jim99wickersham@yahoo.com on Mar 13, 2009 10:00 AM CDT reply actions  

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