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The NHL added one more wrinkle to the 24-team playoff format adding chaos.
If you thought that the NHL wouldn’t complicate the 24-team playoff format anymore, you are fooling yourself. The latest wrinkle now features a new seeding format for the top four for each of the top four seeds in each conference.
That means a few things. For one, it throws the entire second round into a blender that won’t be found out until the Play-in Round is complete. That means that these teams aren’t actually getting a bye and that whatever games they are playing absolutely matter to who they can draw in the next round.