As we approach the end of the second calendar month in the 2024-25 NHL season, we also march towards "Thanksgiving playoff cutoff" season. So get your postseason team takes ready, because now's the time to sling them. North of 75% of teams in the last 10 seasons that were in a playoff position by (American) Thanksgiving stayed in one by the end of that season.
That's very good news for teams like the Carolina Hurricanes, Washington Capitals and Minnesota Wild, who many wrote off at the start of the season as teams on the outside looking in for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.