They say the NHL standings on American Thanksgiving paint a pretty accurate picture of what will become the eventual playoff field, and they're right. Last season, 13 of 16 teams in a playoff position on Thanksgiving went on to make it. That's a success rate of 81.25%, which'll do. For the past decade, the accuracy is about 77 percent.
This means, if the trend persists this season, we got a look at about 3/4ths of the playoff field last Thursday. This also means somewhere around three teams in a playoff spot on Nov. 28 won't go on to make it, and three-or-so teams out of the picture will fight their way in.