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NHL - Week 21 of 28

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
Lightning AtlanticAtl 37 14 4 55 78 - - - 27 MW MW MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 32 17 8 57 72 - - - 22 24 25 25 25 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 33 19 6 58 72 - - - 21 23 24 24 24 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 32 19 6 57 70 - - - 21 23 24 24 24 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 32 20 5 57 69 - - - 20 22 23 23 23 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 28 22 7 57 63 - - - 17 19 20 20 21 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 27 21 9 57 63 - - - 17 19 20 20 21 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 29 25 3 57 61 - - - 16 18 19 19 20 MW
 
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 36 15 6 57 78 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 29 15 12 56 70 23 26 26 - - - 26 26 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 32 21 5 58 69 20 23 24 - - - 24 24 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 29 20 7 56 65 20 23 24 - - - 24 24 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 29 23 7 59 65 17 20 21 - - - 21 21 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 25 20 11 56 61 18 21 22 - - - 22 22 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 28 27 2 57 58 16 18 19 - - - 19 19 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 22 29 6 57 50 12 14 15 - - - 15 15 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