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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 19 9 2 30 40 45 47 48 - - - 48 48 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 18 9 4 31 40 44 46 47 - - - 47 47 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 18 11 3 32 39 43 44 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 18 11 2 31 38 - - - 44 45 47 47 47 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 19 13 0 32 38 - - - 43 45 47 47 47 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 17 12 3 32 37 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 16 9 4 29 36 44 46 47 - - - 47 47 MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 14 8 7 29 35 44 45 47 - - - 47 47 MW
 
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 16 11 3 30 35 - - - 44 46 47 47 47 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 17 13 1 31 35 42 43 45 - - - 45 45 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 15 13 4 32 34 40 42 43 - - - 43 43 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 14 11 5 30 33 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 15 13 2 30 32 - - - 42 44 45 45 45 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 14 12 4 30 32 - - - 42 44 46 46 46 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 13 12 6 31 32 40 42 43 - - - 43 43 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 13 14 4 31 30 - - - 40 42 44 44 44 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