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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 41 17 6 64 88 MW MW MW - - - MW MW MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 32 17 15 64 79 14 18 MW - - - MW MW MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 37 23 5 65 79 13 17 MW - - - MW MW MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 40 19 6 65 86 - - - MW MW MW MW MW MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 39 20 4 63 82 - - - 17 18 19 MW MW MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 35 18 10 63 80 - - - 16 17 19 19 MW MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 36 22 7 65 79 - - - 14 15 16 17 MW MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 36 22 6 64 78 - - - 14 15 17 18 18 MW
 
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 33 21 10 64 76 12 16 17 - - - 17 17 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 32 22 9 63 73 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 MW
Capitals MetropolitanMet 32 26 7 65 71 9 13 14 - - - 14 14 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 29 23 11 63 69 10 14 15 - - - 15 15 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 32 29 3 64 67 - - - 9 10 11 12 13 MW
Devils MetropolitanMet 32 30 2 64 66 8 11 12 - - - 12 12 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 27 27 11 65 65 - - - 7 8 9 10 11 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 26 30 8 64 60 5 8 9 - - - 9 9 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