Lose in regulation and you get nothing. Lose in overtime or a shootout and the league gives you a point anyway, for showing up and hanging around. It's a participation trophy, and it bends the standings every night.
So here's the table with the trophies taken back: two points for a win, zero for any loss.
Loser points handed out league-wide.
Real rank → corrected rank
Left, the NHL's order. Right, the order with loser points gone. Green lines climb, red lines fall.
The corrected table
Points are two per win and nothing else. The struck number is what the NHL says; the red figure is the point it gave away for losing.
| # | Team | W-L | Pts | NHL pts | Move |
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How the correction works
Every overtime and shootout loss becomes a plain loss. Points are two times wins. A team's corrected points % is wins divided by games played.
Ties in corrected points go to the team with fewer games played, then more regulation wins, then whoever the NHL has higher. That's simpler than the league's real tiebreakers (points %, regulation wins, head-to-head), so treat a tie at the margin as a tie.
Rank numbers on the left of the swap are the NHL's own, tiebreakers and all.