Your friend is right. Points/game should be the ranking system. Hawks would be 3rd in the Central on this metric. Same on the home/road thing. Hawks have played more games and done better at home. The Blues have had the better season so far, but not better than the Red Wings. The rankings are probably Wings, Blues, Hawks...by miniscule margins. Except the Red Wings goal differential which is twice as good as the Blues or the Hawks. His HOF rant sounds dumb and uninformed, however. yeah I gotta agree. I was just looking up SOS numbers this morning and the Hawks have played the easiest SOS in the Western Conference so far this year, and have by far the hardest remaining schedule in the conference (I think the Hawks is around .540, while the next hardest schedule is .510). Add in the home games, PPG, and goal differential and its pretty clear the Blues and Wings have played better than the Hawks this year. That doesn't mean that the Hawks aren't better than those teams. I think all of that has yet to be decided.