How does playoff hockey work




















Edmonton , 18 points Games remaining: 71 34 home, 37 away vs. West: Nashville , 15 points Games remaining: 69 35 home, 34 away vs. Calgary , 17 points Games remaining: 70 35 home, 35 away vs. Anaheim , 17 points Games remaining: 68 33 home, 35 away vs. Minnesota , 18 points Games remaining: 70 36 home, 34 away vs. San Jose , 15 points Games remaining: 70 35 home, 35 away vs. Louis , 17 points Games remaining: 71 37 home, 34 away vs. Winnipeg , 15 points Games remaining: 70 35 home, 35 away vs.

Los Angeles , 15 points Trailing Nashville by 0 points Games remaining: 69 34 home, 35 away vs. Vegas , 14 points Trailing Nashville by 1 point Games remaining: 69 35 home, 34 away vs. Vancouver , 12 points Trailing Nashville by 3 points Games remaining: 69 34 home, 35 away vs. Dallas , 10 points Trailing Nashville by 5 points Games remaining: 70 37 home, 33 away vs. The teams finishing second and third in each division will meet in the First Round within the bracket headed by their respective division winner.

First-round winners within each bracket play one another in the Second Round to determine the four participants in the Conference Finals. Home-ice advantage through the first two rounds goes to the team that placed higher in the regular-season standings.

In the Conference Final and Stanley Cup Final, home-ice advantage goes to the team that had the better regular-season record, regardless of the teams' final standing in their respective divisions.

We encourage you to review it carefully. These changes should hopefully provide some fresh content, as the Stanley Cup Playoffs have gotten a little bit stale over the years with very few changes. With new changes, hockey could provide new fans with an incentive to keep on watching. Like most years, there will be 16 teams in the postseason eight teams from each conference.

However, there will be four teams from each division, which is a slight change from the norm. Usually, each division has at least three playoff teams and each conference has two additional wild card teams. Why does each division have four teams? Each division will send one team to the semifinals. First off, the season was a game sprint that began on Jan. Fun fact: Two of those games also featured the same matchup in the first round of this season's playoffs; the Maple Leafs beat the Canadiens in overtime and the Blues beat the Avalanche Teams were divided into four brand-spanking-new but only for this season divisions because of the Canadian-U.

The games were kept to inter-divisional play with teams facing their division foes eight to 10 times. The East, Central and West played each member of their division eight times; the North was a little lopsided but fans got to see 10! Battles of Alberta. Gone is the qualifying round of summer bubble hockey. The normal number of teams advanced to the Stanley Cup in , with 16 clubs raring to go. These are the team's that will compete for the Stanley Cup and their seeding.

It came down to the Avalanche's last game, but thanks to a win over the Kings, Colorado snagged the franchise's third Presidents' Trophy. The other two times?



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