NHL Weekend Showdown: Will Canada’s Playoff Hopes Spark a Holiday Crisis?
1. Colorado Avalanche (16-1-5, +40) – The streak is over! No, not their winning streak, which reached nine with last night’s 1-0 win over Chicago. But that close score did snap their streak of five straight wins by exactly three goals. Keep it up with this sort of progress, and somebody will be able to beat these guys by New Year’s.
*Goals differential without counting shootout decisions like the NHL does for some reason.
Not ranked: Los Angeles Kings – Two things were true about the Kings heading into this season. The first: They’d been a good team for four years in a row, making the playoffs each season while averaging over 100 points. While they’d lost to the Oilers in the first round in each of those years, calling into question the height of their ceiling, they were clearly at least a playoff-caliber team, and were coming off a 2024-25 season that was the best of the bunch.
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