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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 45 19 6 70 96 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 35 19 16 70 86 8 12 MW - - - MW MW MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 37 22 11 70 85 7 11 12 - - - 12 12 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 44 20 6 70 94 - - - MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 43 21 4 68 90 - - - 12 MW MW MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 38 21 10 69 86 - - - 9 11 13 13 13 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 39 23 8 70 86 - - - 8 10 MW MW MW MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 40 26 5 71 85 6 11 MW - - - MW MW MW
 
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 38 24 8 70 84 - - - 7 9 11 11 12 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 36 24 9 69 81 - - - 7 9 11 11 11 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 34 23 12 69 80 5 10 11 - - - 11 11 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 35 27 9 71 79 3 8 9 - - - 9 9 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 35 32 2 69 72 2 6 7 - - - 7 7 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 34 32 3 69 71 - - - 2 4 6 6 6 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 29 29 13 71 71 - - - X 2 4 4 4 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 28 33 9 70 65 X 2 3 - - - 3 3 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