NHL playoff standings: Latest on the Eastern wild-card chaos
The Canadiens and Blue Jackets both take the ice Thursday. Here are matchup details, full bracket projections.
abc11.comI don’t have live access to current NHL standings right now. If you’d like, I can summarize how wild-card races are usually determined and offer how to check the latest standings quickly.
- How the wild-card spots are determined: In each conference, the two wild-card teams are the non-division leaders with the most points, plus the next best teams by points, with tiebreakers including regulation wins, win percentage, and head-to-head results.
- Typical sources for up-to-the-minute standings: NHL.com standings page, ESPN NHL standings, or your preferred sports app. These update after each game and show points, games played, regulation/overtime/shootout losses, and the current wild-card rankings.
- If you want, tell me the exact date range you care about (e.g., “as of today” or “last 7 days”), and I can outline the likely wild-card contenders based on recent results and common tiebreakers, or I can guide you to the specific pages to fetch the latest numbers.