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Shaping Up the Wild Card Playoff Race in the West

There probably aren’t many Canucks fans who recall the Minnesota Wild’s “playoff push” in 2015-16.

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The playoff race from 2015-16, where the Minnesota Wild needed only 87 points to make the playoffs.

Yeah, that was a brutal season for the Canucks and the rest of Western Canada. What’s notable about that season, however, was the abnormally low number of points needed to make the playoffs.

It took only 87 points for the Minnesota Wild to lock up the last Wild Card spot that season.