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Report: NHL 24-team playoff format details get finalized

According to The Athletic's Pierre LeBrun, the NHL and NHLPA have come to an agreement on issues that remained from the NHL's 24-team playoff format.

One of the finalized items included the length of games for each series. The play-in round — Blackhawks vs. Oilers in the Western Conference — will be five games and the rest of the postseason series will be seven, with teams being re-seeded after each round.

It was recently reported that team training camps to lead up to the postseason format wouldn't begin ahead of July 10.