I just looked at the standings, and I think it's 11. If the Coyotes don't win another game, and the Sabres "lost out" on only 7 points, that means they would end up with 11 more points, blowing past the Coyotes who are only 5 ahead of us.
If we lost out on 11 points, that would let us only get 7 points out of the 18 available left, and the Coyotes could lose every game, and it would be tie, and we'd have the tie breaker.
But, i did see others on twitter saying 7. Where is that number coming from?
Wait, I keep saying 7, and now I see the number above is 5. That makes even less sense to me.