With less than three weeks remaining every game’s important and every day has a number of important games that’ll impact the various races out East and West in some way. For this blog obviously our focus is on the East where the Rangers, Islanders, Devils and Sabres (yes they’re somehow still in the playoff race) are all fighting for playoff spots in this short season. In the East, there are three seperate races going on, and regulation/OT wins are the first tiebreaker – and as such will be denoted below.
One is for the top two seeds between Pittsburgh, Boston and Montreal. Whoever loses the Northeast will likely slot in as the #4 seed and still get home-ice in the first round, while whoever wins the division will jockey with a now injury-riddled Penguins team for the top overall seed.
1. Penguins 58 points (26 ROW), 9 games left
2. Canadiens 55 points (22 ROW), 10 games left
4. Bruins 54 points (21 ROW), 10 games left
Race number two in the East is the Southeast division battle between Washington and Winnipeg, with the winner getting the third seed and the loser most likely not making the playoffs at all.
3. Capitals 42 points (17 ROW), 9 games left
— Jets 40 points (18 ROW), 8 games left
And of course the race that all of us reading this blog care about, the playoff race.
5. Leafs 48 points (22 ROW), 9 games left
6. Senators 44 points (15 ROW), 10 games left
7. Rangers 42 points (16 ROW), 9 games left – they get seventh on the second tiebreaker, head-to-head points against the Isles
8. Islanders 42 points (16 ROW), 9 games left
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9. Devils 40 points (13 ROW), 9 games left
10. Jets 40 points (18 ROW), 8 games left
11. Sabres 38 points (11 ROW), 9 games left
12. Flyers 37 points (16 ROW), 10 games left
Tonight’s results:
Boston 6, Carolina 2
Toronto 4, Rangers 3
Tomorrow’s key games:
Philly at Islanders 7 PM
Pittsburgh at Carolina 7 PM
Washington at Montreal 7:30 PM
Ottawa at Tampa Bay 7:30 PM
Buffalo at Winnipeg 8 PM
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Derek
Battle Of Hudson 
Good stuff. It's gut wrench time.
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