Ottawa beat Carolina tonight, reducing the Hurricanes max number of points possible to 103. Montreal, New York Rangers & Boston remain at max 104. Subtracting the Pens current point total, 75, from 104 yields 29, and add one to assure all tiebreakers, leaves a magic number of 30. The Pens have 20 more games, or 40 possible points, left on the table. A record of 15-5 will clinch them a playoff spot no matter what the 9th place team does.
As the ninth place max points becomes less, due to teams failing to gain max points, the magic number is reduced accordingly. Likewise, when the Pens get points, the magic number decreases by that much as well.
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