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cpt obvious
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Race in the West

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How about the race taking place in the West right now...who ends up where and why?
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My opinion...Lasalle hangs onto 1st with Chatham pushing them hard, but run out of time. 3rd to 6th pretty much locked in. St. Thomas easily holds off Strathroy for 7th as inept coaching has sunk Strathroy.
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Nats can still catch Chatham if they can win the remainder of their games and get help with Chatham losses. 6,7,8 still up for grabs depending on which team wins their games. 4 and 5 are the only locks, Chatham can still catch Lasalle if they win the remaining games and Lasalle losses theirs. Ton of races left...
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So Chatham wins in OT tonight. The best LaSalle can do is 78 points, Chatham is 77.

LaSalle hosts St Marys on Wed in their last game. The Lincolns have beat the Vipers in their last 2 meetings.

Chatham has Sarnia St Marys and London left this week. If LaSalle beats St Marys, or if Chatham loses any of their 3, LaSalle will have 1st.

As for the bottom, don't think it'll change from what it is now, which means I might be looking for some time off work to go to LaSalle for the first time in 2 seasons.
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Very real chance for St. Thomas can catch St. Marys. Lincolns have Lasalle and Chatham, Stars have London, Leamington and Strathroy before meeting on the final day of season. 2 very tough games for St. Marys. If they were to lose both, Stars have to only win 1 of those 3 games to make it come down to that last game. I could definitely see that happening. Stars are on a roll having beat 3 of the top 4 teams during their current 4 wins in 5 streak. (The loss coming to St. Marys :)

Having said that St. Thomas has not beat St. Marys all year so no reason to think they would win Sunday anyway :)

edit: had to re-write due to my stupidity.
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With the single point last night from Chatham, the Nats have to hope they only tie once more and lose the rest to catch them. Stars/Nats game is a big one for both teams but the Sarnia/Shores game is meaningless today. Family Day hockey at the WF!
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Re: Race in the West

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So what's the first tie-breaker?

If there's a 2-way tie? Say Chatham loses their last 2 and London wins They will have same number of points. From what I read it seems the first tie-breaker is the GF pct (GF/(GF+GA)). London's is much better than Chatham's. They will both have the same number of wins. Not sure if H2H comes into play.

Same situation could possibly happen with St. Marys and St. Thomas and even Strathroy and St. Thomas.

In other news, the Stars are pretty hot. Very doubtful they can beat any of the top 3 in a series but it won't be a cake walk.
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The first tie-breaker is games won. The second is head to head and the third is the goals scored/allowed formula.
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This came up last year when LaSalle and London were tied for 2nd place. This is the official tie breaker used by the OHA.


To determine final regular season standings when Teams have equal points, the following system shall determine placement. The Team awarded the higher placing when tied with another shall be the Team with:
(a) the most wins (including regulation & overtime - NOT shootout). If wins are tied,
(b) best record versus the Team tied with. If records are equal,
(c) goal average, the formula is: goals for plus goals against divided into the goals for, with the answer expressed as a percent. The Team with the higher percent will be the higher standing Team.
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Re: Race in the West

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ty both.
So, London can still catch Chatham (they would win the tie break under rule C) but
Strathroy can't catch St. Thomas (at most they could have 17 wins)
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The race today comes down to St Marys and St Thomas. The winner gets London, loser gets Chatham, who nobody wants to play.

I expect it will be a large crowd on hand at the Timken tonight for this showdown.
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Re: Race in the West

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It should also be interesting tonight in Chatham. The game doe not mean anything in the standings, so will the teams play their AP's or will they try to keep momentum into the playoffs?
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GOJHLFAN-999 wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:24 pm It should also be interesting tonight in Chatham. The game doe not mean anything in the standings, so will the teams play their AP's or will they try to keep momentum into the playoffs?
Chathams top guys are pretty banged up. Wouldn't be surprised if they gave the AP's one more game to give them that little more time to get 100% before the first round.
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Re: Race in the West

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Well we got our answer. By my count London was without 8 regulars and Chatham only a couple and one being Beenackers who they've been without a while. The maroons honored their OA's pre game, took and early lead and then got sh** kicked. Of course Thompson is game MVP despite Trottier scoring FIVE goals and winninh west scoring title.
Clash of the titans second round should make for an entertaining series.
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BlackJacket wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:47 pm Well we got our answer. By my count London was without 8 regulars and Chatham only a couple and one being Beenackers who they've been without a while. The maroons honored their OA's pre game, took and early lead and then got sh** kicked. Of course Thompson is game MVP despite Trottier scoring FIVE goals and winninh west scoring title.
Clash of the titans second round should make for an entertaining series.
London Had 5 APs last night, Chatham had 4. Londons AP #18 was quite impressive with 2 goals. Maroons coach was pulling dice out of a bag last night for line combinations. One line was all AP players and another line he had was 5 defenseman quite strange. Chatham was also missing Beenackers Yetman, Harrison, Bohn and Derynck. Either way, excuses aside, its playoffs now, and that changes everything. We can all speculate and what if but we all know anyone can win any night in the west. That's what makes it exciting.
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