Heading into this bye week, the Chicago Blackhawks are sitting in second place in the Central Division, as well as second in the entire Western Conference, with 75 points. They’re five points behind the Minnesota Wild, but the Blackhawks have also won five consecutive games.
There’s all kinds of numbers in those couple sentences, right? Well, hockey is really all about number. Any sport with standings and/or rankings of some kind can say that.
But the NHL is especially interesting because you’re looking at points as the result of how a team fares any given night, as well as things like goal differential and regulation/overtime wins.