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Ryan Whitney finished with 11 points in 19 games for the Oil, which prorates to 47 or 48 over a full season. That’s about where I think he’ll land next campaign.

Crosby, by the way, ends with 15 points in his last five games. Still three years (or more) away from his prime, so there is still hope yet of him or of course even all of the Big 3 reaching 150 points. Discuss.

Boston had zero players reach 53 points; Nashville had zero players reach 52; Isles had zero reach 55; Toronto zero hit 56; St. Louis zero hit 58 and Phoenix traded for the only player who reached 56.

Have you ever seen a season where the leading scorer on six different teams didn’t even need 58 points?

I didn’t have time to do up an article Sunday due to updated the Draft List (buy it here). But I figure I have said all that needs to be said elsewhere. You can find my playoff preview on Puck Daddy (Western Conference click here, Eastern Conference click here). And you can find my playoff preview for The Hockey News (Western Conference click here, Eastern Conference will be out tomorrow). You’ll see some dark horses and playoff strategy…

So seven seasons into his career and Rick Nash’s career high remains 79 and he has only reached 70 points once. Kudos to those of you who traded him away over the years for a return that only an 85- or 95-point player would bring.

Detroit has two 50-point+ players, and nobody who reached 71.

Sam Gagner was second in Edmonton scoring. With 41 points.

Stephen Weiss had just 18 points in his last 33 games.

Dustin Brown rolls into the postseason with 10 points in his last six games.

Sidney Crosby had us excited for awhile there. He had five points before Sunday’s game was halfway over. He needed eight points to win the Art Ross Trophy. Unfortunately for him, he was stopped at five. Still, it was quite the charge and he wound up tying Steven Stamkos for the Rocket Richard Trophy. Or rather, Stamkos tied him since Crosby had his 51st before Stammer got it.

My draft list is fully updated as of Sunday night, complete with my picks for an upset and updated picks for the first round. In my rush to get this up for evening pools, there may be a glitch. If so, please let me know in the comments below. But everything should be working fine according to my tests.

The “safe” and “obvious” picks: WAS over MTL, NJ over PHI, BUF over BOS, PIT over OTT; SJ over COL, CHI over NSH, VAN over LA, DET over PHO. Those are the picks you can expect every unoriginal poolie to come up with and they will draft accordingly. But I see upsets for NSH over CHI and COL over SJ if I were to pick two.

I don’t know which shocks me more vs. start of season – Henrik finishing first, Stamkos finishing fifth or Gaborik finishing 10th in league scoring.

Tomas Plekanec had just 10 points in the final 21 games.

Eric Tangradi’s first NHL game: 13:49, no points, three shots, one glorious opportunity. Pretty solid. If Matt Cooke can’t go, they could do worse than run with Tangradi. He won’t be on anyone’s playoff list, you can grab him in the final round and see how it goes.

Jordan Leopold has seven points in his last nine games and has done an excellent job of running the second PP unit for PIT. I think he’s found a good fit there.

I’m glad Matt Moulson tallied his 30th goal but I was pulling for him to get to 50 points. He ended with 48.

Zach Hamill played 12 minutes and tallied an assist in his first NHL contest. I don’t think he’ll make the team next year, but in 2011 he should be good to make the jump and potentially round into a second liner.

A final word on Tom Gilbert – I have to figure out a way to keep him now. He was late to the party, but had 10 points in the final five games and 19 in his last 16 games. He had 12 in his first 66. How can a fantasy owner possibly prepare for that?

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