End of season progress chart
We all know we didn't make the playoffs (sorry, forgot the spoiler tag). I tracked progress through the season and posted the following chart at various points. Now the season is over, I redid the numbers based on how many points would have gotten us in the playoffs (the original target was 96 (88% chance of playoffs based off the last decade) but 90 was good enough this year).
Ultimately, we lost it post-Olympics. The big plummet from the end of November to early December, where we lost 9 of 10 in regulation time, really hurt, but not as much as the dismal time we had between the end of February and the final game against Colorado. During that period we won only 7 of 26 games, and picked up a losing point twice. That means of a possible 52 points we got only 16 - a dismal 30% of the points available. Given that we were actually above the line coming out of the Olympic break, it makes the pain all that more exquisite.
Next season the league shifts from 82 to 84 games and so I'll use the historical average number of points per game to get into the playoffs from previous seasons to guesstimate where the line will be.
One final point - we won fewer games this season than last, which is shocking really. We made up that shortfall by being more resilient and taking games into overtime. The loser points were worth a lot (although not as much as the Kings who won only one more game than us but made it into the playoffs by virtue of 20 (yes twenty) losing points).
