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THE BIG STAT: Could the NHL's playoff tiebreaker work in Calgary Flames' favour?

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The Calgary Flames have 88 points, with four games left on their schedule, and need to win all four .

The Flames are tied with the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference wild-card race.

The first tiebreaker goes to the team that has won the most games, excluding those they won in overtime or the shootout.

The other tiebreaker values regulation wins above all else, followed by overtime victories and, finally, shootouts.

If the two teams finish tied on points and regulation wins, the second tiebreaker kicks in, and that includes overtime wins in the calculation. Already, the Blues have 39 combined regulation and overtime wins, while the Flames have only 33 . There’s no catching them. So if the Flames are going to make the playoffs, they a) need to win all their remaining games in regulation and hope the Blues don’t pick up more than three points, with none of them coming in regulation wins, or b) Finish ahead of the Blues , flat-out..