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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 18 9 3 30 39 45 46 48 - - - 48 48 MW
Hurricanes MetropolitanMet 18 9 2 29 38 45 47 48 - - - 48 48 MW
Islanders MetropolitanMet 17 11 3 31 37 43 44 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Red Wings AtlanticAtl 17 11 3 31 37 - - - 45 46 48 48 48 MW
Lightning AtlanticAtl 17 11 2 30 36 - - - 45 46 48 48 48 MW
Bruins AtlanticAtl 18 13 0 31 36 - - - 44 46 47 47 47 MW
Penguins MetropolitanMet 14 7 7 28 35 45 46 48 - - - 48 48 MW
Flyers MetropolitanMet 16 9 3 28 35 45 46 48 - - - 48 48 MW
 
Devils MetropolitanMet 17 12 1 30 35 43 44 46 - - - 46 46 MW
Rangers MetropolitanMet 15 13 4 32 34 40 42 44 - - - 44 44 MW
Canadiens AtlanticAtl 15 11 3 29 33 - - - 45 46 48 48 48 MW
Panthers AtlanticAtl 15 12 2 29 32 - - - 44 46 47 47 47 MW
Maple Leafs AtlanticAtl 14 11 4 29 32 - - - 44 46 47 47 47 MW
Blue Jackets MetropolitanMet 13 11 6 30 32 41 43 45 - - - 45 45 MW
Senators AtlanticAtl 13 12 4 29 30 - - - 43 45 46 46 46 MW
Sabres AtlanticAtl 12 14 4 30 28 - - - 41 43 44 44 44 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