Monday, January 09, 2006
Standings Watch
In late November, I posted the quarter-pole standings. Yesterday the Caps played their 40th game, and the whole East has now played 40 games. Here's the apples-to-apples standings for the conference through 40 games:
And goal differential:
Notes of interest:
And goal differential:
Notes of interest:
- If it seems like the Rangers are tailing off, well, they're not.
- It's just impossible to overstate how dominant Ottawa was over the 1st 20 games. In the 2nd 20, they scored 25 fewer goals, allowed 11 more, and still had the best goal differential in the conference.
- It's also pretty tough to overstate how bad Montreal was in the 2nd quarter. If they hadn't beaten Ottawa 4-1 on Saturday in their 40th game, they would have been the worst team in the conference by every measure.
- The East obviously took a bit of a beating in interleague play. The cumulative goal differential of the 15 teams over the 2nd 20 games was -33.
# posted by Matt @ 1:03 pm 
