With only a couple of weeks before teams must ultimately decide if they will be buyers, sellers or observers for the 2016-17 NHL trade deadline on March 1, even minor movement in the standings will have a significant effect.
At the moment, there are plenty of bubble teams doing their research in case they are able to remain in the playoff hunt.
What you consider a bubble team depends on how you view the races in the Eastern and Western Conferences, so we've enlisted the use of Sports Club Stats to define these teams—looking at franchises hovering around the wild-card spots with predicted percentages between 80 per cent and 15 per cent (minus one addition in what looks a three-way battle for two spots in the west).