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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 28 10 5 43 61 38 MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 26 15 4 45 56 34 36 37 - - - 37 37 MW
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 26 15 3 44 55 34 36 38 - - - 38 38 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 27 15 2 44 56 - - - 35 37 MW MW MW MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 25 16 3 44 53 - - - 33 35 37 37 37 MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 23 15 3 41 49 - - - 34 36 38 38 38 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 21 19 5 45 47 - - - 29 31 33 33 33 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 20 17 6 43 46 31 33 34 - - - 34 34 MW
 
Senators AtlanticAtl 21 18 3 42 45 - - - 31 33 35 35 35 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 20 18 4 42 44 - - - 31 33 34 34 34 MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 20 18 4 42 44 - - - 31 33 34 34 34 MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 18 19 8 45 44 28 30 31 - - - 31 31 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 19 20 5 44 43 28 30 32 - - - 32 32 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 20 20 2 42 42 30 32 33 - - - 33 33 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 17 18 7 42 41 29 31 33 - - - 33 33 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 16 22 5 43 37 - - - 26 28 30 30 30 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