WE DID IT 🌈NUMBER OF DESTINY : 0 🌈 PAT YOURSELF ON THE BACK

#**🌈NUMBER OF DESTINY🌈: *SPEEDRAN TO 0*!**

#**LET ME EXPLAIN**:
The **🌈NUMBER OF DESTINY🌈** is derived by taking the forecasted safe playoff cutoff point, and figuring out how many games we have to win to beat it. Right now, we need to win 🌈**NOTHING MORE**🌈 to be able to fully relax in the most promising post season of all time. Haha get WRECKED Pacific Division.

#**NON-CREATIVE WRITING ASSIGNMENT (SELF INDULGENT)**:
I am never been more completely happy and at peace (hockeywise, I have a life outside of this sometimes).

The 💀**DOOM NUMBER**💀 posts of old came about because I was tired of people arguing every December/January with missives about how a terri-bad season was just inches from turning around. The “lol u doubters, were only 8 points back!” at Game 41 was a commendable position to take but also required a small dash of reality

^FYI: ^the ^reality ^is ^that ^you’re ^on ^pace ^for ^a ^<80 ^point ^season

I don’t believe in being “positive” or “negative” as a starting point, I believe in COLD, HARD DATA and then reckoning your world view once you have it. Nothing is colder than the 💀**SKULL EMOJI**💀 and basic mathematics in a 💀**GOOGLE SHEET THAT IS STILL TITLED “REDDIT PREDICTIONS 20-21” BUT IT IS 2024**💀. If you look at data and still wanna be a positive person, fucking sweet! If losing makes you sad, then *why not have a little fun with it?*. Maybe make a weekly post where you talk about your fake invisible dog or rewrite [the Voight-Kampff scene from Bladerunner](https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/toxznh/doom_number_on_a_weekend_the_unofficial_playoff/) from the perspective of /u/kneejerk_nuck . We were together through four total weeks of the Matthew Highmore Era and I wouldn’t trade any of it.

When the team started doing good this year out the gate, I was so happy we could spin this as a positive. It’s been really fun to go from GOTH HOCKEY PIT OF DISPAIR to OH WOW SOMETIMES THE BOUNCES GO OUR WAY.

Anyways thanks for following and commenting, I love doing these and I’m happy to have our first official HAPPY ENDING (at least together and not in the back room of the NHL Mascot Showdown at All-Star Weekend).

Oh yeah and all 3 “fancy stats” models at the end of the post clicked over to 100% too for this update, *DOM IS COPYING US NOW, 3B ANALYST BTW*

🎺**TOOT TOOT**🎺.

#RECORD AND TRENDS:
*Current record:* **44-18-8**
*Current division place (by points %):* **1st Pacific** (Same as last update)
*Current league place (by points %):* **2nd NHL** (Formerly 3rd in last update)
*Current end of year pace:* **112 Points** (Oh no we were 113 last update)
*Last 10:* **5-4-1** (Oh damn we were 6-2-2 last update)

What kind of pace do we need to make playoffs?: **Just lose all our games who cares lol*

Right now the playoffs safety cutoff is predicted to be around: **94 points**
To reach that we would need a record of: **0-12-0 in the remaining 12 games**

#PROFESSIONAL PREDICTIONS:

[Athletic](https://theathletic.com/) finishing points/playoff chances [PAYWALL]: **100%** (110 pts)
[Moneypuck](http://moneypuck.com/predictions.htm) playoff chances: **100%** (~~116~~ 111.6 pts)
[HockeyViz](https://hockeyviz.com/) finishing points/playoff chances: **100%** (109.3 pts)

by elrizzy