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Only four days into the resumption of the 2019-20 NHL season and the first team has won a qualifying-round series and punched its ticket for the conference quarterfinals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That also meant the first team has been eliminated.
The Carolina Hurricanes, who are the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference, completed a sweep of the No. 11-seeded New York Rangers on Tuesday night, with their 4-1 victory marking their third straight win in the best-of-five series. However, they won't know their next opponent until the round-robin seeding games (for the top four teams in each conference) and qualifying round are complete.