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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 38 15 6 59 82 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 31 15 13 59 75 20 23 MW - - - MW MW MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 35 21 5 61 75 18 21 MW - - - MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 38 16 4 58 80 - - - 24 24 MW MW MW MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 35 19 6 60 76 - - - 20 22 MW MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 33 17 9 59 75 - - - 20 22 23 23 23 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 34 20 6 60 74 - - - 19 21 22 22 22 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 33 21 5 59 71 - - - 18 20 21 21 22 MW
 
Capitals MetropolitanMet 31 24 7 62 69 14 16 18 - - - 18 18 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 29 21 8 58 66 16 19 20 - - - 20 20 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 29 22 8 59 66 - - - 16 18 18 18 19 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 27 21 11 59 65 15 17 19 - - - 19 19 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 30 27 3 60 63 - - - 13 15 16 16 17 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 27 24 9 60 63 - - - 13 15 16 16 17 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 29 29 2 60 60 12 14 15 - - - 15 15 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 23 29 7 59 53 9 11 13 - - - 13 13 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