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Eastern Conference Losing Magic Numbers

How close is your team from being eliminated from winning a certain playoff spot? A Losing Magic Number is the number of games a team must lose to guarantee losing a given playoff spot. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

Eastern Conference Losing Magic Numbers
Record Metropolitan Divisional Winners Atlantic Divisional Winners Wildcard No
Playoffs No
POs
Team DivisionDiv W L OTLi
Overtime Loses
 GPi
Games Played
82 game season
 Ptsi
Pts = 2*W + 1*OTL
 1*
First Round Home
Ice Advantage
 2*
First Round Home
Ice Advantage
 3 1*
First Round Home
Ice Advantage
 2*
First Round Home
Ice Advantage
 3 7 8 9
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 47 21 6 74 100 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 38 21 16 75 92 4 MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 42 29 5 76 89 1 5 MW - - - MW MW MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 46 21 8 75 100 - - - 7 MW MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 46 22 6 74 98 - - - 8 MW MW MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 43 21 10 74 96 - - - 6 7 MW MW MW MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 43 24 8 75 94 - - - 4 5 7 MW MW MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 38 25 12 75 88 1 5 7 - - - 7 7 MW
 
Senators AtlanticAtl 38 26 10 74 86 - - - 2 3 4 5 7 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 39 27 8 74 86 - - - 1 2 4 5 7 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 37 25 12 74 86 1 5 7 - - - 7 7 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 38 28 9 75 85 X 4 6 - - - 6 6 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 38 34 2 74 78 X 2 3 - - - 3 3 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 32 30 13 75 77 - - - X X X X 2 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 36 35 3 74 75 - - - X X X X 2 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 31 35 9 75 71 X X X - - - X X MW
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric indicates the number of games that must be lost to guarantee losing this spot
  • "MW" indicates the team Might Win the spot despite losing all of its remaining games
  • * denotes first round home ice advantage in the playoffs