While it would require a miracle roughly akin to Lazarus being raised from the dead, if the Pens continue to stack wins and the competition collapses, there’s still a microscopic chance we might slip into the playoffs. Likely to then be served up as fodder for one of the Eastern Conference powers.
Looking at our situation realistically, that isn’t going to happen. We have too much ground to make up, seven points to be exact with only 10 games to play, not to mention four teams to leapfrog. Not mathematically impossible but highly implausible.
So why this discordant discourse?