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Not to mention, Vancouver at the bottom of that list is just silly.

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How is it silly? That chart says that the Canucks were heavily outscored against playoff teams. I'm guessing a look at their record against playoff teams will show a correlation.

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You can almost find any stat to show team A is better than team B. Your little chart doesn't prove anything for the post-season.

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See my edit with records for Vancouver and Anaheim. It absolutely shows that Vancouver is only mediocre against quality competition and the Ducks are very good.

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variance ftw.

the regular season has so many idiosyncracies with regard to travel and injuries that nothing can be gleaned from this except that Anaheim did better against playoff teams this year. It has no predictive value whatsoever.