Looking at the final standings, its easy to see that some divisions are much more hotly contested than others.  Only 1 team from the Northwest, for example, even made the playoffs, while every time in the Pacific was in the hunt right up until the end of the final game (or at least until the 2nd period of that game, sorry Dallas fans).  I wondered how the standings might look if the schedule was more balanced, rather than the intra-division war that it currently is.  As a simple first pass estimate, I took the total points each division accumulated, and then just normalized each team's point total.  As you can see below, not much of a change in the East, but it shakes up the standings in the West and even causes Dallas to sneak into the playoffs. 

This is obviously a pretty rough estimate, and the first thing that came to mind for me was that a division that plays a lot of OT games would have an inflated point total, so I tallied up the OTL totals for each division, but it actually just made the Pacific even stronger.  I'd be really interested to see the results if someone can come up with a better method.  Comparing across the conferences will probably be somewhat difficult, since the sample size is fairly small. 

I posted this here because I know its patrons are the masters of NHL statistical analysis.  Any ideas on how to estimate the final standings if each team in the league played each other team twice, once at home and once on the road?