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00:00the Florida, Tampa, Toronto game.
00:02Florida gets the win in Toronto over to Leafs,
00:06and the Leafs went into this game
00:07only two points back of Florida
00:09for that Atlantic Division lead,
00:10and now Florida extend, extend, extend.
00:14They have a four-point lead now in the division,
00:16three-two win for them.
00:18So Toronto's, listen, we know the deal with them.
00:21You know, it's tough for them to beat these teams.
00:23The Tampas and the Floridas,
00:24they have a big, very hard time with them,
00:26and that's who they're gonna have to beat
00:28in the first couple rounds of the playoffs.
00:30So not going to be easy for the Maple Leafs.
00:32Once again, last night, not good there.
00:34As far as Ottawa goes, six-three victory for them.
00:39They extend themselves.
00:40So we're starting to see Ottawa separate a little bit
00:45in terms of that Eastern Conference wildcard race.
00:48You get Ottawa now up to 75 points.
00:52That's five clear of Columbus, who's in the second spot,
00:55five clear of the Rangers, who are the first team out.
00:58So a little bit of breathing room for Ottawa now,
01:01coming down the stretch.
01:02And when you look at their playoff number,
01:04gone to minus 1,800.
01:07So the books are telling you,
01:09they think that Ottawa is good as gold
01:12to get into the playoffs right now
01:14in the Eastern Conference.
01:15Speaking of Tampa, they lost in Philly to the Flyers,
01:18four-three in a shootout last night.
01:21So only one point for Tampa.
01:23They're still kind of right by, you know,
01:25Tampa's got four points up on Ottawa.
01:28And they got the same amount of games played,
01:30and they're two points back at Toronto.
01:32So Tampa could still get into that two slot,
01:36but the odds of it being Toronto and Tampa once again
01:39in the first round, as we come down with about
01:43really 15 to 17 games left
01:46for just about everybody in the league.
01:47They're all in that area, coming down the stretch.
01:50Penguins beat the Blues last night.
01:52That hurt the Blues,
01:53because when you go look at the Western Conference
01:54playoff race, the Blues are sitting
01:57two points back of Calgary.
01:59Calgary with 71, Vancouver with 71,
02:03Utah with 69, St. Louis with 69.
02:07So St. Louis, they have plus 630.
02:10You know, St. Louis is two points back.
02:13And they are only, you know,
02:16they're plus 630 to make the playoffs,
02:18but they have two more games played.
02:19See, that's why they got the 630 on there.
02:22St. Louis has played 66 games already,
02:25whereas Calgary's sitting at 64, Vancouver 65.
02:28So that's what gets St. Louis in a little bit of trouble.
02:30They think Vancouver's gonna come out at plus 120
02:32for Vancouver, plus 182 for Calgary,
02:35plus 350 for Utah, plus 630 for St. Louis.
02:39So of those four teams for one spot,
02:42St. Louis is the trailer right now on the odds board
02:45as it comes to getting into the playoffs.
02:47Vegas, four nothing win over Columbus.
02:50Columbus, as we said, still has that second spot.
02:53Vegas now six points clear of LA.
02:56Edmonton has slipped to third in the Pacific.
02:59So nice job by the Knights.
03:00Looks like they're gonna try to run away
03:02and hide there in that Pacific and get themselves a win.
03:04Oilers did lose in Jersey to the Devils, three-two.
03:07We said last week, maybe we take a shot
03:09with the Devils to miss the playoffs at a really big number.
03:14They've gotten a couple of wins here,
03:15and now have gotten eight points clear
03:18of Columbus and the Rangers,
03:19the two teams that would have to pass them
03:21in order for us to get that to happen.
03:23So that's a ticket that's in a lot of trouble here
03:25only a week after we put it into the till.
03:28But we were taking a good shot there.
03:29That was a big plus money ticket for the Devils to miss.
03:32Rangers beat Minnesota three-two in overtime.
03:35So two big points for the Rangers in St. Paul.
03:38The Kings beat the Capitals three nothing late last night.
03:41Caps are kind of in cruise control right now.
03:44They got a 12-point lead on Carolina for the Metro.
03:47They've got a nine-point lead on Florida
03:51for the first best team in the East.
03:54Winnipeg's even with them for the President's Trophy,
03:56but honestly, nobody wants the President's Trophy.
03:58It's a curse.
03:59It's not a gift.
04:00You win the President's Trophy,
04:02usually you don't win the Cup.
04:04So I'm sure Washington would just fine
04:06not getting themselves that.
04:08And in the battle of two worst teams in the NHL last night,
04:13the Blackhawks and the Sharks
04:15finished with a four-two win for San Jose,
04:18and they couldn't get me the over.
04:19I had the over yesterday.
04:21We talked about that on Coast to Coast.
04:22Two bad teams, lots of goals,
04:24and they were not able to come through for us in that spot.