How many teams in nhl make playoffs. The picture for the 2020 nhl playoffs and how the 2020 stanley cup might be handed out looks a lot clearer. Nhl commissioner gary bettman announced on tuesday that the 2019 20 regular season is done and that the stanley cup playoffs will begin with 24 teams which he believes is the fairest format. Here are the easts qualifying round matchups.
On tuesday nhl commissioner gary bettman announced that league will transition into a 24 team conferenced based playoff format when play resumes. The league worked out re seeding and more. He emphasized that health and safety of players is the top priorities.
The nhls modified playoff format will include a 16 team eight series four best of 5 series qualifying round and a round robin competition among the top four teams in each conference to. If theres a tie among points in the round robin tourney the nhl will use regular season points as a tiebreaker. This provides a total of eight teams from each conference.
He also announced and explained the specific. Eight teams from each of the two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season points totals. The playoffs will consist of reseeding after every round instead of a bracket style.
Format for 2020 nhl playoffs the 24 teams will resume play based on the top 12 teams in each conference based on points percentage at the pause as of march 12.