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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 47 15 9 71 103 MW MW ^ - - - ^ ^ ^
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 43 24 4 71 90 5 MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 37 28 7 72 81 X 6 MW - - - MW MW MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 43 25 3 71 89 - - - 10 11 MW MW MW MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 43 25 3 71 89 - - - 10 11 MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 41 25 5 71 87 - - - 10 11 MW MW MW MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 37 28 5 70 79 - - - 6 7 8 MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 33 28 9 70 75 - - - 4 5 6 10 12 MW
 
Islanders MetropolitanMet 32 28 10 70 74 X 4 9 - - - 10 12 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 34 32 6 72 74 X 3 7 - - - 8 10 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 32 29 9 70 73 X 4 8 - - - 9 11 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 33 32 6 71 72 - - - 2 3 4 8 10 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 30 33 9 72 69 - - - X X 1 5 7 MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 29 33 11 73 69 X X 3 - - - 4 6 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 28 36 9 73 65 X X 1 - - - 2 4 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 29 35 6 70 64 - - - X X 1 5 7 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