NHL wild-card standings: Updated playoff bracket, clinching scenarios for Canadiens, Rangers, more bubble teams
Here are the updated wild-card standings and clinching scenarios for the 2025 NHL playoffs.
www.sportingnews.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.