The NHL playoffs are scheduled to be held exclusively in Canada, with games set to open in Toronto and Edmonton on Saturday.
A security guard peers out from behind NHL branded fencing at the entrance where players arrive at Toronto's Royal York hotel, which is acting as the"bubble" ahead of the return of the league's season following disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Toronto, Sunday, July 26, 2020.
The streak is so long that 22-year-old New York Islanders prospect Kieffer Bellows wasn't even born when his father, Brian, hoisted the Cup for Montreal. "There's no doubt that in Canada, hockey's the No. 1 sport. You can probably say everybody's focused on it 24 hours a day," said Vigneault, whose Flyers will compete in a round-robin series to determine first-round playoff seeding. "There was obviously positive pressure in Vancouver I felt. And there's some positive pressure here in Philly."
"Canada in 2020 is different from the Canada in 2000 or 1980," said Dryden, who also noted how Canadians feared they were losing a grip on hockey with the NHL expanding into non-traditional U.S. markets and the Colorado Avalanche winning the Cup in 1996, their first season after relocating from Quebec City.
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