Game 4 May 23, pm ET. Game 5 May 25, pm ET. Game 6 May 27, pm ET. West Division Colorado Avalanche vs St. Louis Blues. Game 7 May 28, pm ET. Boston Bruins. Game 1 May 29, pm ET.
BOS leads Game 2 May 31, pm ET. Tied Game 3 June 3, pm ET. Game 4 June 5, pm ET. Game 5 June 7, pm ET. NYI lead Game 6 June 9, pm ET. NYI wins Central Division Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Carolina Hurricanes. Game 1 May 30, pm ET. TB leads Game 2 June 1, pm ET. Game 5 June 8, pm ET. TB wins West Division Vegas Golden Knights vs. Colorado Avalanche. COL leads Game 2 June 2, pm ET.
Game 3 June 4, pm ET. Game 4 June 6, pm ET. West Division: 1 Colorado Avalanche vs. East Division: 1 Pittsburgh Penguins vs. East Division: 2 Washington Capitals vs. North Division: 1 Toronto Maple Leafs vs. North Division: 2 Edmonton Oilers vs. North Division: Series predictions, odds, breakdowns, Stanley Cup predictions. Central Division: 2 Florida Panthers vs.
Louis Blues. West Division: 2 Vegas Golden Knights vs. Ice Hockey. Alex Ovechkin career goals and rank on NHL all-time scoring list. Will Alex Ovechkin catch Wayne Gretzky? For the NHL season , the league revamped its playoff structure to become conference-based rather than division-based. Eight teams in each conference qualified for the playoffs. The division first-place teams were seeded first the team with the best record in the conference and second in the conference playoffs and received home ice advantage for the first two rounds.
The next best six teams in each conference also qualified and were seeded third through eighth. All teams played in the first round: first-place versus eighth, second versus seventh, third versus sixth and fourth versus fifth. All series were best-of-seven, but the arrangement of home games was changed for Central and Pacific division teams.
Instead of the normal 2—2—1—1—1 rotation, a series involving teams from both divisions was 2—3—2, with the higher seeded team having the option of starting play at home or on the road many teams with home-ice advantage chose to play the default format, from After each round, surviving teams were reseeded to play a conference semi-final, then a conference final.
The conference winners then played each other in the Stanley Cup Finals. Home ice advantage was determined by higher seed in the first three rounds and by regular-season points of the two teams in the Stanley Cup Finals. In —99, the league was re-organized into two conferences of three divisions apiece, resulting in the playoff format used through The qualifiers remained sixteen, but the seeding changed.
The three first-place teams in each division qualified and were seeded first through third for the playoffs. Of the other teams in each conference, the top five finishers qualified for the fourth through eighth seedings. All teams played in the first round: first-place versus eighth, second versus seventh, third versus sixth and fourth versus fifth, by those criteria.
Like the — system, the conference winners then played each other in the Stanley Cup Finals and home ice advantage was determined by higher seed in the first three rounds and by regular-season points of the two teams in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Under the new postseason system, the top three teams in each division make the playoffs, with two wild-cards in each conference for a total of eight playoff teams from each conference. In the conference quarterfinals, the top-ranked team in the conference plays against the lowest-ranked wild-card, while the other division winner plays against the higher ranked wild-card.
The second and third place teams in each division then play each other. The conference quarterfinal winners then meet in the conference semifinals. The third round will still consist of the Western Conference and Eastern Conference Finals with those conference winners advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Compared to other major professional sports leagues, playoff upsets are relatively common in the NHL. According to NHL broadcaster Darren Eliot, this is because the style of competition in the playoffs is different from the regular season: instead of playing different teams every night, the goal is to advance through four best-of-seven playoff series. The Presidents' Trophy winner may have to go through other playoff clubs who might have a hotter goaltender, a better defensive team or other players that pose matchup problems.
If the regular season champion's primary success was only outscoring others, they may be out of luck facing goaltenders that can shut them out. And although rare, another aspect is that the NHL leads the other leagues in Game 7 comebacks. Doug Gilmour and Peter Forsberg in and respectively, are the only players who have topped the postseason in scoring without making it to the Finals. NHL players have often grown beards when their team is in the playoffs, where they do not shave until their team is eliminated or wins the Stanley Cup.
The tradition was started in the s by the New York Islanders and is often mirrored by the fans, as well. At the conclusion of a playoff series, players and coaches line up and exchange handshakes with their counterparts on the opposing team and this has been described by commentators as " one of the great traditions in sports ". However, there have been rare occasions that individual players have refused to participate such as Gerry Cheevers who left the ice without shaking hands with any of the Flyers in and Billy Smith , who avoided handshakes as he was particularly passionate about losses.
More recent examples of players refusing the handshake include the playoffs when several Detroit Red Wings players protested the dirty hit by the Colorado Avalanche 's Claude Lemieux and in the playoffs when Martin Brodeur refused to shake Sean Avery's hand after Avery screened him in an earlier game. Campbell Bowl Western Conference champion after they have won the conference finals; the players feel that the Stanley Cup is the true championship trophy and thus it should be the only trophy that they should be hoisting.
There have been two recent exceptions to this: Scott Stevens of the Devils in and and Sidney Crosby of the Penguins in In both of those cases, their teams went on to win the Stanley Cup.
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