# Amazon — Determining playoff clinching scenarios in the NHL using constraint programming

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-07T16:21:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/determining-playoff-clinching-scenarios-in-the-nhl-using-constraint-programming/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3660-determining-playoff-clinching-scenarios-in-the-nhl-using-constraint-programming

AWS Generative AI Innovation Center created an automated system using constraint programming and custom tree search to determine NHL playoff clinching scenarios, validated against official NHL results.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/determining-playoff-clinching-scenarios-in-the-nhl-using-constraint-programming/:

> In this post, we describe how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center created an automated system that determines NHL playoff clinching scenarios. Our approach uses constraint programming (CP) and custom tree search to produce these scenarios, and we validated the results against those officially published by the NHL.

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