The last slate of games for the NHL’s exhibition round ahead of the postseason have officially wrapped up, with the Vegas Golden Knights walloping the Arizona Coyotes 4-1, the Columbus Blue Jackets demolishing the Boston Bruins, and the Nashville Predators shutting out the Dallas Stars.
Now, it’s a brief break before official game action starts on Saturday, with Colorado playing their first postseason game of 2020 on Sunday afternoon. The top regular season teams in each division will hold a round-robin tournament to determine first round seeding, while the teams who were on the bubble (no pun intended) leading into the postseason will each play a best-of-five ‘play-in’ series to determine who actually gets to reach the real first round.