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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
Capitals MetropolitanMet 45 15 8 68 98 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 41 22 4 67 86 10 MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 37 26 6 69 80 5 10 MW - - - MW MW MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 41 24 3 68 85 - - - 14 14 MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 39 23 5 67 83 - - - 14 15 MW MW MW MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 40 24 3 67 83 - - - 13 15 MW MW MW MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 36 26 5 67 77 - - - 10 11 12 MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 33 27 7 67 73 - - - 8 9 10 13 15 MW
 
Rangers MetropolitanMet 33 30 6 69 72 1 7 10 - - - 11 13 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 31 28 8 67 70 2 7 10 - - - 12 14 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 31 28 8 67 70 1 7 10 - - - 12 14 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 32 30 6 68 70 - - - 6 7 8 11 13 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 30 30 9 69 69 - - - 4 5 6 9 11 MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 28 32 10 70 66 X 2 5 - - - 7 8 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 28 33 8 69 64 X 2 5 - - - 7 8 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 27 33 6 66 60 - - - 3 4 5 8 10 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