I was looking at the standings today and currently we are in a two way tie for 9th place with the Lightning. We are two points behind the Rangers. The only problem with that is that the Rangers have THREE games in hand. How is that possible?!!? In fact some teams have only played 13 games so far in this "shortened, strained" schedule which means we've played 4 more games than them. That's a WEEKS worth of games this year. So is this a good thing or a bad thing? Does this mean that we will have more rest at the end of the year? That might be good, but will it be too late because our tough crammed start to the schedule has put us so far behind?