Looking at Schedules and Stats of the Bottom Teams

With only 10 games left for the New Jersey Devils, it is debatable how many more games they will win. John had a quality piece up about that back on Monday when 13 were remaining. Of course, they managed to beat Edmonton when I started Mikko Koskinen in my fantasy hockey playoffs, but that’s besides the point. Today, let’s take a look at some of the major key stats and schedules of the teams near New Jersey in the standings. How do they looking heading down the final stretch, and how might that affect the Devils’ final position in the standings?

As of this writing (before Friday night’s games, so whatever NJ did against Vancouver, you can add that in), it looks to me like Ottawa has all but…