The NHL's regular season is over and the chase for the Stanley Cup is on if hockey returns this summer.
The league settled on a 24-team post-season format that Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano supported back in March as the coronavirus was shutting down sports.
“You can’t eliminate teams who are out on points percentage or stuff like that,” Giordano said. “I think you go 12 and 12. More teams get in this year, maybe a couple of byes at the top and play it out.”
The top four teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences get byes into the final 16 except for a handful of round-robin games to determine seeding.