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NHL - Week 25 of 28

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
Sabres AtlanticAtl 44 20 8 72 96 - - - MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 44 21 6 71 94 - - - 10 MW MW MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 40 21 10 71 90 - - - 8 9 MW MW MW MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 40 24 8 72 88 - - - 6 7 10 10 MW MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 38 24 10 72 86 - - - 5 7 9 10 10 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 38 25 8 71 84 - - - 5 6 9 9 10 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 31 29 13 73 75 - - - X X 2 3 3 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 35 33 3 71 73 - - - X 1 3 4 4 MW
 
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 45 20 6 71 96 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 36 20 16 72 88 7 10 MW - - - MW MW MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 38 23 11 72 87 6 9 10 - - - 10 10 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 41 27 5 73 87 5 9 MW - - - MW MW MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 35 24 12 71 82 4 8 9 - - - 9 9 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 36 28 9 73 81 2 6 7 - - - 7 7 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 37 32 2 71 76 2 5 6 - - - 6 6 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 28 35 9 72 65 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