From frank_seravalli: NHL outlines 24-team return-to-play format, June 26 Draft Lottery. MORE:
Exactly 75 days after pause was pressed on the season, the NHL became the first major North American pro sports league to unveil its formal return-to-play plan on Tuesday.
The top four teams in each conference will play for first-round seeding using regular season overtime rules. It will be possible, Bettman conceded, that the current No. 4 seed Philadelphia Flyers end up as the No. 1 seed in the East to begin the playoffs - even though they finished 11 points behind the Boston Bruins, the best team in the East - and the entire league - in the regular season.
Bettman also said that it remains possible for the Conference Final and Stanley Cup Final to be played in the cities of the teams that are competing.> Three of the NHL’s 10 hub city candidates are in Canada. Will Canada be home to one of the host cities? “We certainly see some merit to moving the club to a different market,” Daly said, “so any perceived advantages associated with being in a home market are eliminated.”
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