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Seriously, do these people know how bad a hockey team has to be to finish with 65 points?

The last-overall Toronto Maple Leafs dumped six players last season and auditioned 40 and still finished with 69 points.

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Sure, the 2014-15 National Hockey League season saw the deepest, most determined dive race down the standings in many years by teams desperate to draft Connor McDavid. The Buffalo Sabres traded their best player for an injured guy to bottom out at 54 points and still saw McDavid go to the Edmonton Oilers.

One of the worst teams of the last 20 years was the 2013-14 Sabres, who finished with 52 points in 82 games. But their coach was Ted Nolan and the first-line centre was Cody Hodgson, now out of hockey, so that hardly seems relevant now.

In the last eight full NHL seasons, know how many times a team finished with fewer than 65 points? Seven. Out of 240 teams.

Sixty-five points are a biblical disaster, scorched earth, the end of hockey as we have known it around the Vancouver Canucks since Marc Crawford replaced Mike Keenan as coach in 1999.