Prospect Rankings

Remaining Schedule Strength

This looks at a team's remaining games and calculates the combined points percentage for all those opponents.
A high strength of schedule is good for tanking.

West

East

Pacific

Central

Metropolitan

Atlantic

SOS

LEFT

TOUGHEST OPPONENTS

EASIEST OPPONENTS

1

.590

26

2

1

3

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

1

2

.586

25

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

1

1

3

.582

26

3

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

4

.579

27

2

2

2

1

2

3

1

1

1

1

1

1

5

.578

24

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

3

3

6

.578

26

1

3

2

1

1

3

2

1

1

1

2

1

7

.576

25

3

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

8

.575

25

2

2

1

1

3

2

1

2

1

2

1

1

9

.573

25

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

10

.573

25

3

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

11

.573

25

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

12

.571

25

2

2

3

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

13

.570

26

1

1

1

1

1

3

2

1

1

1

1

1

14

.570

24

2

1

3

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

2

2

15

.570

24

2

1

1

1

3

1

1

1

1

3

1

16

.568

24

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

17

.568

23

1

1

2

2

2

2

1

1

1

2

3

1

18

.565

25

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

19

.564

25

1

1

2

3

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

2

20

.563

25

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

21

.563

25

2

1

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

3

22

.562

26

2

2

1

1

1

1

2

2

1

1

1

2

23

.560

25

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

3

2

1

24

.560

25

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

3

2

25

.559

25

1

2

1

2

1

2

2

1

2

1

1

1

26

.558

25

1

1

2

2

2

1

1

3

1

1

1

1

27

.554

25

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

3

1

28

.554

26

3

1

1

1

1

2

2

2

2

2

1

2

29

.541

27

3

2

2

1

1

2

3

3

2

1

30

.530

26

1

1

2

1

1

2

2

3

2

2

2

31

.529

26

1

1

1

1

1

2

3

1

1

3

1

2

32

.527

27

2

2

1

1

1

1

3

1

2

2

3

Determining the NHL Draft Order

1

All teams missing the playoffs are in the Lottery

2

Teams with the least points get more chances at winning the Lottery

3

The 1st overall pick is awarded by a drawing of ping pong balls. A team can only jump ten spots, so only the top 11 teams are eligible for the 1st pick. If a team in the 12-16 range wins the first drawing, the first pick will be awarded to the worst team. The 12-16 seed team that won the first drawing is also locked into their new position.

4

A second drawing is held to determine the other lottery winner. Like the first drawing, the second winner can only jump ten spots, but this time it is using the re-seeded order following the first drawing. This second drawing will not affect the team(s) with locked-in positions from the first drawing. If a ten spot jump is to a pick that is already locked-in, this team will receive the next available pick.

5

Teams are only allowed to improve their positioning via the Lottery twice in a five year period (beginning with the 2022 Lottery).

6

Ties are broken by teams' total number of regulation wins (RW), regulation and non-shootout overtime wins (ROW), and then head-to-head if still tied

7

Playoff teams that did not win their divisions and did not make the conference finals, sorted by points, are assigned the next picks

8

Playoff teams that won their divisions and did not make the conference finals, sorted by points, are assigned the next picks

9

Conference finals losers sorted by points are assigned picks 29 and 30

10

Stanley Cup runner-up is assigned pick 31

11

Stanley Cup champion is assigned pick 32

12

Note: This site uses points percentage instead of points to account for different number of games played between teams

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