The bottom line on "loser points" ? They are points earned, not lost. By a younger, hungrier team that is playing entertaining hockey, and is 3-1-1 on this 6 game trip already. Don't they know they are supposed to be losing without the points, damnit ?
I get the argument for falling to the bottom of the standings, getting a guy like Auston Mathews. I really do. People point to the Hawks, when they got Toews and Kane and all the rest that comes with picking first in every round (from the 97-98 season until the 2007-08 season, the Hawks made the playoffs once, bowing out in five games in the 1st round in 01/02 ) see the Cups, and get caught up in that "blueprint for success".