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Playoff race lab

Why the margin matters tonight, a team-by-team path explainer, and cut-line tables with gaps vs the real 8th-place club — without crowding the main standings page.

This page is meant to read like a broadcast “B-panel” for the bubble: we spell out who is truly on the cut line, which clubs are only a few points from swapping seeds, and why a single regulation result can move several teams at once. Use it alongside the home standings when you want narrative context, not just sortable rows.

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Your playoff path

Game-by-game “should win vs can slip” lives on each team page — it walks your real schedule in order.

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Why this matters tonight

Conference snapshots (cut line, bubble pressure, pack races) — same cards as the home page, kept here so this hub stays visual.

Eastern Conference

PHI holds the cut line by 3 point(s) over WSH.

8thPHI · 989thWSH · 95Gap3 pts

Tight stack: only 0 pt(s) between PIT (98 pts) and PHI (98 pts); seeds can reshuffle overnight.

PIT98 ptsPHI98 pts

Western Conference

LAK holds the cut line by 4 point(s) over STL.

8thLAK · 909thSTL · 86Gap4 pts

Tight stack: only 0 pt(s) between UTA (92 pts) and ANA (92 pts); seeds can reshuffle overnight.

UTA92 ptsANA92 pts

Bubble race & cut line

The cut-line pack is only the teams packed around the last playoff seeds—not a full standings clone. Pace charts below plot every team in each conference after every game vs a 1 point-per-game baseline (positive = ahead of that pace).

Cut-line pack

Eastern Conference

Conference ranks 5–12 plus any extra bubble club outside that band. Rows show pts & ROW vs today’s 8th, max standing points, cushion if you won out while 8th held steady (WO v 8), games left, magic / elimination numbers, and sim odds.

8th (cut line): PHI 98 pts, ROW 27. First team out: WSH at 95 pts.

#TeamPTSPts ±GLM#E#Sim %
5
BOSAtlantic
100+200100%
6
OTTAtlantic
99+100100%
7
PITMetropolitan
98000100%
8
PHIMetropolitan
98000100%
9
WSHMetropolitan
95-3000%
10
DETAtlantic
92-6000%
11
CBJMetropolitan
92-6000%
12
NYIMetropolitan
91-7000%

Western Conference

Conference ranks 5–12 plus any extra bubble club outside that band. Rows show pts & ROW vs today’s 8th, max standing points, cushion if you won out while 8th held steady (WO v 8), games left, magic / elimination numbers, and sim odds.

8th (cut line): LAK 90 pts, ROW 22. First team out: STL at 86 pts.

#TeamPTSPts ±GLM#E#Sim %
5
EDMPacific
93+300100%
6
UTACentral
92+200100%
7
ANAPacific
92+200100%
8
LAKPacific
90000100%
9
STLCentral
86-4000%
10
NSHCentral
86-4000%
11
SJSPacific
86-4000%
12
WPGCentral
82-8000%
Full conference — pace vs 1 pt/gameEach line is cumulative points minus games played (same as points above a flat one-point-per-game pace). The horizontal axis is games completed (0 = start of season). Colored abbreviation badges at the right mark each team’s latest game with data.

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

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Data from NHL API · Auto-refreshes every 60s · Pure math, no AI

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