What the standings might have been

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The Battle of California found this 4/5/2007 on www.mikechenwriting.com [flag]
(Note: This post was written prior to the completion of the Saturday afternoon games. The standings reflect this, so it's not totally accurate based on when you read it. Still, you get the idea.) I really, really, really can't stand the NHL's "lucky loser" point. If you win, you win. If you lose, you lose. You shouldn't reward any team for losing. You want to keep shootouts so that there are ... [link]

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Published 4/5/2007 by Earl Sleek at The Battle of California
... It's kind of fluky that the Ducks lost in a shootout last night to the Sharks, because earlier yesterday I had been chatting with Mike Chen about his treatment of shootouts in his proposed standings post . Mostly I was just telling Mike that I have been keeping spreadsheets of game results over the past two seasons, so whereas he was having some trouble separating regulation wins from overtime wins from shootout wins, I had that stuff pretty available at my fingertips. At any rate, I took a quick look at some of these results, and there are two major trends (comparing this year to last year) to note: 1. Fewer games that are going to overtime are being decided within the 5-minute 4-on-4 extra session. Last year, 281 games ended with two teams tied at the end of regulation, and 136 (48%) were decided before a shootout. This year, 274 games have been regulation ties, and only 113 (41%) were end