![]() We’re just at the finish line, full-on sprint, as hard as you can. “We’re running neck-and-neck is the way it feels. “There’s not enough separation,” Maurice said. Florida’s odds didn’t look great a week ago when the Panthers had lost four in a row winning four in a row since won’t cause the team to relax, coach Paul Maurice said. ![]() Other teams are still alive, but need a series of miracles to grab one of the last two berths. Pittsburgh is now on the outside, its 5-1 loss to New Jersey on Tuesday leaving the Penguins stuck on 86 points.įlorida, the Islanders and Pittsburgh all have four games left. The New York Islanders also have 87 points and would be behind Florida in a tiebreaker, but still hold the second of the conference's two wild-card berths. ![]() The Panthers, right now, hold the first wild-card spot in the East with 87 points. “But it felt more towards that direction.”įlorida has jumped from being outside the playoff picture to controlling its own destiny in these last four games - somehow, the first four-game winning streak all season for a club that had the NHL’s best regular-season record a year ago. “I don’t want to say it was playoff hockey,” Lyon said. The latest victory came Tuesday when Lyon stopped 39 shots and Florida beat Buffalo 2-1 to move atop the super-tight Eastern Conference wild-card standings. They play the soundtrack to “The Lion King” in the Panthers’ dressing room after wins these days - a nod to Lyon, who has gone 4-0-0 with starting netminder Sergei Bobrovsky sidelined by illness. He once stopped 94 of 95 shots to win a five-overtime AHL playoff game.Īnd over the last week, he may have helped save the Florida Panthers’ season. He had a shutout to clinch the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup championship last season for the Chicago Wolves. The 30-year-old who has spent the majority of his pro career in the minors owns no fewer than seven records at Yale, where he’s the all-time wins leader. (AP) - Alex Lyon’s goaltending resume is no joke. Today's clinching scenario: The Colorado Avalanche will clinch a playoff berth if they defeat the San Jose Sharks in any fashion, or if they get one point against the Sharks and the Flames lose to the Chicago Blackhawks in any fashion, or if the Predators lose to the Golden Knights in any fashion and the Flames lose to the Blackhawks in regulation.SUNRISE, Fla. Those aren't too high, but they're not 0% either. ET, NHL Power Play on ESPN+), a team that stands between the Preds and the two wild-card spots currently.Īs of now, the Preds' playoff chances sit at 4%. It gets complicated on Wednesday, as the Jets will host the Calgary Flames ( 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN), while rooting for the Vancouver Canucks against the Kraken ( 10 p.m. They'll host the Vegas Golden Knights ( 8 p.m. If they are going to make a dramatic run into the postseason, their game tonight is close to a must-win. Two and a half weeks later, the Preds are five points behind the Jets, and eight points behind the Kraken, and now there is clearly much less time to make up that ground. ![]() At the time, they were four points behind the Winnipeg Jets and six points behind the Seattle Kraken. Back on March 16, we considered the wild-card playoff chances of the Nashville Predators.
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