Playoff Race Counters
This page will keep you up to date daily with standings based on Winning Percentages and Power Rankings plus schedule difficulty, but there are several other sites that offer their own views on the race you may find interesting or useful.
James Mirtle updates his Playoff Push regularly by giving the record each team needs over its remaining games to finish the season with 95 points and by doing so all but guarantee a playoff spot. While 95 points is neither statistically a guarantee of a playoff berth nor the minimum actually required (last year Montreal and Tampa Bay slipped in with 93 and 92 points, respectively) it is true that 95 points is a pretty good target to shoot for.
The Hockey Rodent offers RealStandings, which is based on pure winning percentages. Unlike me, the Rodent does not differentiate between home and away games. He also includes in his listing total current wins, losses and ties.
The Hockey Rodent also offers a Playoff Berth-O-Meter, which gives a percentage chance of teams to make the playoffs based on each team’s possible range of points. Since the Rodent focuses on the New York Rangers, the Berth-O-Meter is usually available for the Eastern Conference playoff race, though I’ve seen the Western Teams up from time to time.