Friends, we’re inching closer and closer to perhaps hockey returning. The NHL and NHLPA have reportedly hammered out a lot of the details about a modified playoff format according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
Per Friedman, the top four teams in the each conference would get byes but play in a round robin of some sort against each other – presumably so they wouldn’t be coming into the second round cold. It’s unclear if (or how) the round robins would impact conference standings or bracketing.
The rest of the playoffs would be “bracketed.” That means, in both conferences 5 vs.