 Under current rules, a tie between two teams for a conference's final playoff berth (this being the second wild card seed of a conference under the current format) can only be broken by the first three tie-breakers - regulation and overtime wins (ROW), head-to-head results, and overall goal differential.Prior to the 2005 introduction of the shootout in the NHL, ROW was simply referred to as "wins" for tiebreaker purposes.The right to host such a game would be determined by a random draw.