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

.586

35

1

2

3

1

1

3

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

.584

33

2

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

3

.583

33

1

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

2

4

.581

34

3

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

4

3

5

.581

35

4

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

6

.579

33

3

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

3

1

7

.577

35

2

1

3

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

8

.575

34

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

9

.573

34

2

1

2

1

3

1

1

3

1

1

2

1

10

.572

35

1

1

1

1

1

3

1

1

2

1

3

1

11

.572

33

2

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

2

12

.572

33

2

2

2

1

2

2

1

3

2

1

1

2

13

.569

34

2

3

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

2

1

1

14

.569

33

3

2

3

1

1

1

1

2

1

3

2

1

15

.568

33

2

1

1

1

1

3

1

1

2

1

1

1

16

.568

35

2

2

1

1

1

3

2

1

1

2

1

2

17

.566

35

3

2

2

2

1

1

2

3

3

2

1

1

18

.565

35

2

2

2

2

4

3

1

2

1

1

1

1

19

.564

34

2

1

3

2

1

1

1

3

1

1

1

1

20

.564

34

1

1

1

1

1

3

2

1

1

1

1

1

21

.563

33

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

3

2

1

22

.559

33

1

1

2

2

2

1

2

1

3

1

1

2

23

.558

35

1

2

3

1

2

2

1

2

1

1

1

2

24

.557

34

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

2

1

25

.555

35

1

3

1

1

1

2

3

2

1

1

1

1

26

.554

33

2

1

2

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

1

1

27

.553

34

2

1

3

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

2

1

28

.549

34

1

1

2

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

3

29

.548

36

3

2

1

2

1

2

1

3

2

2

3

2

30

.547

34

1

1

2

1

1

2

3

2

3

2

2

1

31

.544

34

2

1

1

2

1

1

3

2

2

4

1

2

32

.537

35

1

1

2

2

1

1

2

2

3

3

2

1

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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