Last Night

So it was finnish youngster Teemu Hartikainen who made his NHL-debut in Edmonton Oilers. Played mainly in the 4th line and in the second pp-line. Played 15:19 and got 0+1, so pretty good debut. Dallas won Chicago 5-0 Brilliant game by Stars and Kari Lehtonen made his second shutout of the year. Minnesota faced San Jose Sharks and lost 2-3. So Minnesota has really tiny change to make it to playoffs. Nicklas Backstrom faced 50shots on the goal and made 47saves! Columbus lost to Detroit 0-2 and Joey Macdonald posted his first shutout of the year. Valtteri Filppula scored his 15 goal of the year. Im counting Columbus out of the western conference playoff race.

1	Y - VANCOUVER	NW	72	47	16	9	103	43	237	169	+68	25-7-5	22-9-4	4 - 5	8-2-0	WON 7
2	DETROIT	CEN	71	43	20	8	94	39	232	201	+31	19-11-4	24-9-4	4 - 3	6-2-2	WON 4
3	SAN JOSE	PAC	72	41	23	8	90	36	206	188	+18	19-11-5	22-12-3	5 - 4	6-2-2	WON 2
4	PHOENIX	PAC	72	38	23	11	87	34	209	204	+5	17-11-6	21-12-5	4 - 4	5-3-2	WON 4
5	LOS ANGELES	PAC	71	40	26	5	85	33	196	174	+22	20-12-2	20-14-3	7 - 2	6-3-1	LOST 1
6	DALLAS	PAC	71	38	25	8	84	33	201	199	+2	20-11-6	18-14-2	5 - 5	6-2-2	WON 1
7	CHICAGO	CEN	71	38	25	8	84	33	232	201	+31	22-14-0	16-11-8	5 - 5	6-2-2	LOST 1
8	CALGARY	NW	73	37	27	9	83	29	222	209	+13	22-12-4	15-15-5	8 - 6	6-4-0	WON 1
9	NASHVILLE	CEN	71	36	25	10	82	30	183	168	+15	18-8-7	18-17-3	6 - 4	5-3-2	WON 1
10	ANAHEIM	PAC	70	38	27	5	81	34	197	203	-6	22-12-2	16-15-3	4 - 2	6-3-1	WON 1
11	MINNESOTA	NW	71	35	29	7	77	33	180	191	-11	17-13-4	18-16-3	2 - 5	3-6-1	LOST 4

Here you can see the Western Conference top eleven teams. Vancouver ensure that they are in the playoffs. 

Detroit and San Jose are pretty sure in too. Phoenix is playing very good atm so i don't think they can be dropped out of the top eight. From the 5th position to 10 only 4points separating the teams. Hoping that Nashville and Anaheim can make it to playoffs.

I am going to done same kind of statistic in the eastern conference too.