March 13th Playoff Race Update

by Brandon Bibb on Mar 12, 2009 11:23 PM CDT in Dallas Stars News

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.

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 Jason Brynsvold 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.

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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