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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 20 9 2 31 42 45 46 47 - - - 47 47 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 19 11 3 33 41 42 44 45 - - - 45 45 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 18 10 4 32 40 43 44 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 18 11 3 32 39 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 18 12 3 33 39 - - - 42 44 46 46 46 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 19 13 0 32 38 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 16 9 5 30 37 43 45 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 18 13 1 32 37 41 43 44 - - - 44 44 MW
 
Penguins MetropolitanMet 14 8 8 30 36 43 44 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 16 11 4 31 36 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 16 13 4 33 36 40 41 43 - - - 43 43 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 16 13 2 31 34 - - - 42 44 45 45 45 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 14 12 5 31 33 - - - 41 43 45 45 45 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 14 13 4 31 32 - - - 41 43 44 44 44 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 13 13 6 32 32 39 40 42 - - - 42 42 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 13 14 4 31 30 - - - 40 42 43 43 43 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