Corrado evaluates current NHL standings & details who he thinks will make playoffs

American Thanksgiving marks the time of the NHL season where nearly 80% of teams that are in a playoff position end up making the postseason. TSN Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado joins SC with Jay Onrait to look at the current standings, share who he thinks will make the playoffs, and if he’s still backing the Oilers to win the Stanley Cup.

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  4. As a lifelong, 5 decade Flames fan, my immediate instinct was to say you're absolutely right.
    … on the otherhand as an old hockey guy, my experience has taught me you should be careful betting against a hot goalie…
    🤔

  5. Sens aren't better than buffalo and buffalo has the better goalie and better defense. Buffalo been winning without their #1 cwntre who was on a 90 point pace

  6. Flame 🔥 are making the playoffs maybe not the top but squeezing in. Oilers are sitting this one out can’t score 6 goals each game which is the only way they are winning games due to poor goaltending and defending. Look at flames it’s the other way around winning those 3-1 3-2 games due to stellar goaltending and defending

  10. When it comes to Canada's NHL teams and the Preds' team that I follow I predict, given where they are in the standings, the:
    – Jets, with 36 points over 23 games, are 10 ahead of the Avs for a top-three Central Division spot, was it thus likely the Jets will finish in the top-three of that division
    – Leafs, with 28 points over 22 games, are just 4 and 5 respective points ahead of the Bolts and Sabres for a top-three divisional and playoff spot, putting the Leafs in a lot less of a secure playoff spot than the Jets
    – Flames, with 28 points over 23 games, are just three and four respective points ahead of the Canucks and Oilers for a top-three divisional and playoff spot
    – Canucks, with 25 points over 21 games, occupy the second wild card spot of the Western Conference, a reminder of their inability to win consecutive games at home but also iffy goaltending with Thatcher Demko out and an unknown return date for him
    – Oilers, with 24 points over 22 games, are a points behind the Canucks for the final Western Conference playoff spot
    – Sens and Habs, with 21 and 19 respective points over 22 games each, are 3 and 5 respective points out of the final Eastern Conference playoff spot
    – Preds, a team I had chosen to at least for this season follow after they had dropped their first five regular-season games, with just 18 points over 43 games, find themselves seven points out of the nearest available playoff spot, and are thus the least likely, of the non-playoff Canadian NHL teams and themselves, to climb into a playoff spot

    Of the teams I have listed above, I see the:
    – Jets as the likeliest to remain in a playoff spot right through to the end of the 2024-25 regular season
    – Preds as the likeliest to remain outside of a playoff spot even if they don't fall at least 10 points out of one
    – other Canadian teams as potential candidates to switch places from where they currently stand

  18. Analysts continue to prove their “knowledge” of advanced stats doesn’t mean shit. This guy should start working at McDonald’s when the flames make the playoffs

  21. The flames: everybody was saying the same thing about the nucks this time last year. I still think the oilers get in but the kings are more likely to fall off than the flames. Also St. Louis has a good chance of taking over the avs

  22. This oiler love is laughable. Hyman is cheechoo 2.0…they are older and slower, mcdavid cant play 60 min….they have an asshat for a gm that at least half of the other gms just wont do business with.

    Edit: how is necas not in the hart trophy discussion?

  25. Oilers lost to much speed size and youth, they made regressive System changes 5×5 and also on the PP caused by overthinking their Playoff losses, this is an Oilers team with a vanilla identity that is not a SC Team and IMHO is not a Playoff team….book this….1-2 losing streaks of 5-6 games and its all over but the crying. There are 1001 excuses just waiting for the Oilers to use them to explain this seasons lack of progression and success. Flames over Oilers mostly based on Edmontons lack of a real Starting Goaltender…Skinner is a Prince Ruperts Drop and when they need him to steal games just to make the Playoff cut he will choke as he has his whole career….no way to put lipstick on this pig as hard as you may try.

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