NHL Standings After 20

All of the teams in the NHL have finally completed 20 games, with Boston being the last. this is a major milestone in the season because of what it can forecast. The 1994-95 season started with a lockout that resulted in a 48 game schedule. The same happen this year. The part that is most interesting though is that out of the 16 teams that were in playoff position, 15 of them actually made it. We can expect to see something similar this season. I do not foresee 15 of the 16 teams making it because there are four more teams this year than there were then (Columbus, Minnesota, Nashville, Winnipeg).

	Eastern	DIV	GP	W	L	OT	P	ROW	GF	GA	Diff	Home	Away	S/O	L10	Streak
1	Boston	NE	20	14	3	3	31	12	60	46	14	6-2-1	8-1-2	2-1	6-2-2	OT 1
2	Pittsburgh	ATL	20	13	7	0	26	12	69	54	15	5-4-0	8-3-0	1-0	6-4-0	Lost 1
3	Carolina	SE	20	11	8	1	23	11	60	57	3	5-4-0	6-4-1	-	6-4-0	Won 2
4	Montréal	NE	20	13	4	3	29	12	58	43	15	8-3-1	5-1-2	1-2	7-1-2	Won 1
5	Ottawa	NE	20	12	6	2	26	9	48	37	11	9-1-2	3-5-0	3-1	6-3-1	Won 5
6	Toronto	NE	20	12	8	0	24	12	57	46	11	4-4-0	8-4-0	-	7-3-0	Won 1
7	New Jersey	ATL	20	10	6	4	24	10	49	52	-3	6-2-2	4-4-2	0-2	4-5-1	Lost 3
8	NY Rangers	ATL	20	10	8	2	22	8	51	51	E	8-4-1	2-4-1	2-2	5-3-2	Won 2
9	Winnipeg	SE	20	10	9	1	21	10	55	61	-6	4-5-0	6-4-1	0-1	6-4-0	Won 3
10	Tampa Bay	SE	20	9	10	1	19	9	71	64	7	6-4-1	3-6-0	0-1	3-6-1	Lost 3
11	Philadelphia	ATL	20	9	10	1	19	9	58	61	-3	5-2-1	4-8-0	0-1	5-4-1	Won 1
12	Washington	SE	20	8	11	1	17	8	55	59	-4	5-5-0	3-6-1	-	6-4-0	Won 1
13	NY Islanders	ATL	20	8	11	1	17	7	57	68	-11	2-8-0	6-3-1	1-0	4-6-0	Lost 2
14	Florida	SE	20	6	9	5	17	5	51	73	-22	3-4-4	3-5-1	1-1	2-4-4	OT 1
15	Buffalo	NE	20	7	12	1	15	6	50	64	-14	3-6-1	4-6-0	1-0	4-6-0	Won 1

* Designates division leaders

	Western	DIV	GP	W	L	OT	P	ROW	GF	GA	Diff	Home	Away	S/O	L10	Streak
1	* - Chicago	CEN	20	17	0	3	37	15	64	37	27	8-0-1	9-0-2	2-3	9-0-1	Won 7
2	* - Anaheim	PAC	20	15	3	2	32	11	71	53	18	8-1-0	7-2-2	4-2	8-1-1	OT 1
3	* - Vancouver	NW	20	11	5	4	26	9	59	50	9	6-3-2	5-2-2	2-4	5-3-2	Won 1
4	Los Angeles	PAC	20	11	7	2	24	10	54	47	7	6-1-1	5-6-1	1-1	8-2-0	Won 1
5	St. Louis	CEN	20	11	7	2	24	9	59	56	3	5-5-1	6-2-1	2-1	5-3-2	Won 1
6	San Jose	PAC	20	10	6	4	24	7	47	41	6	7-1-3	3-5-1	3-3	3-4-3	Won 1
7	Nashville	CEN	20	9	6	5	23	7	44	47	-3	5-2-3	4-4-2	2-4	4-4-2	Won 1
8	Dallas	PAC	20	10	8	2	22	9	56	57	-1	4-3-1	6-5-1	1-0	6-3-1	Won 1
9	Minnesota	NW	20	10	8	2	22	8	45	48	-3	7-2-1	3-6-1	2-1	6-3-1	Lost 1
10	Detroit	CEN	20	9	8	3	21	8	59	56	3	7-4-1	2-4-2	1-0	4-4-2	Lost 1
11	Phoenix	PAC	20	9	8	3	21	8	57	55	2	6-4-1	3-4-2	1-2	5-4-1	Lost 1
12	Calgary	NW	20	8	8	4	20	8	57	65	-8	5-5-2	3-3-2	0-3	5-4-1	Won 1
13	Colorado	NW	20	8	8	4	20	7	50	59	-9	6-2-1	2-6-3	1-1	4-2-4	OT 1
14	Edmonton	NW	20	8	8	4	20	6	49	53	-4	4-4-2	4-4-2	2-1	4-5-1	Lost 1
15	Columbus	CEN	20	5	12	3	13	4	44	61	-17	3-4-3	2-8-0	1-1	2-6-2	OT 1

* Designates division leaders

As I suspected, a little over 20 points is the cut off point for playoffs spots right now. In fact, both eighth place teams have 22 points. I expect to see the cut off for actual playoff teams to be in the 50-55 range.

Standings from NHL.com. Table converted from Excel to HTML with the help of TABLEIZER.