The NHL regular season was suspended on March 12 and is now officially over, with an expanded postseason beginning this summer.
Yes. Speaking on Tuesday, Bettman made clear that the regular season is officially over and the remaining games will not be playe. That means that the Boston Bruins have clinched the Presidents' Trophy—reserved for the team that finishes with the best regular season record—while Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers is the recipient of the Art Ross Trophy, which is awarded to the player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season.
Washington Capitals legend Alexander Ovechkin and Bruins star Richard Pastrnak have finished the regular season as joint top-scorers and will share the Maurice Richard Trophy. Zdeno Chara #33, Ondrej Kase #28, Charlie McAvoy #73 and Brad Marchand #63 of the Boston Bruins celebrate a goal against the Philadelphia Flyers in the third period at Wells Fargo Center on March 10 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Bruins won 2-0.With the regular season now over, the postseason will expand to accommodate 24 teams as opposed to the traditional 16.
Phase 2 of the NHL's Return to Play plan, which will involve players resuming training in small groups at team's facilities, is pencilled in for early next month. Formal training camps, Phase 3 of the plan, will start"no earlier than the first half of July."The expanded postseason will see the NHL adopt a brand new format for the playoffs. The top four teams in each conference—Boston, Tampa Bay, Washington and Philadelphia in the East and St.
The remaining 16 teams—divided by conferences—will play best-of-five series to determine which eight teams will join the four top teams in each conference in a traditional 16-team Stanley Cup playoffs. The conference finals and Stanley Cup Final will be best-of-seven series.
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