“Is a Blue Jackets Breakthrough on the Horizon? Unpacking the Surprising Weekend Rankings!”

But first, let’s do a quick reset on how much things have changed in two weeks, if only to remind us of how much this league and its storylines can pivot in a short time.

Bonus Five: Important things we missed by taking a week off

1. The Eastern wild-card bubble is now for one spot, not two, and it’s a turtle derby – This isn’t mathematically official, of course, but we’re close enough that we can at least pencil in the Senators for one of those spots. That’s largely because the Senators are finishing strong. But it’s also because the race for that last spot is a turtle derby. If we’re being generous, there are still as many as seven teams in the running for that last spot. Here’s the full list of those teams that have managed to win more than half of their last ten games: (tumbleweed blows by). So the Senators got hot enough to pull away, but everyone else is just jostling around, looking like they don’t especially want to bother.

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