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From the NHL's inception until 1920, both NHL and PCHA teams were eligible for the Stanley Cup. The NHL inherited the NHA's regular season system of dividing it into two halves, with the top team from each half moving on to the league finals. The NHL finals was a two-game total goals series in 1918 and a best
The season structure of the National Hockey League (NHL) is divided into the pre-season, regular season, and the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the pre-season, which is generally held during the last two weeks of September, each team plays several not-for-the-record exhibition games. In the regular season, which generally runs from early October ...
The league's playoff system has changed over the years, from the NHL's inception in 1917, to when the NHL took over the Cup in 1926, to the current setup today. Current rules require overtime for playoff games that are tied after regulation, however that was not always the case.
Furthermore, all playoff teams were seeded regardless of conference. Beginning in the 1981–82 season, the conferences and the playoffs were realigned. The NHL was hoping to reduce travel costs in the face of a struggling economy and high energy prices. The regular season and playoffs were also altered to emphasize divisional match-ups.
In what seems like one of the most wide open playoff pictures in recent memory, the Carolina Hurricanes are the odds-on-favorites at 7/1 (+700) to win their second Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The NHL fought the WHA for players, losing 67 to the new league in its first season of 1972–73, [47] including the Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull, who signed a 10-year, $2.5 million contract with the Winnipeg Jets, then the largest in hockey history. [48]
These are lists of active and all-time National Hockey League (NHL) franchise post-season appearance, post-season series win, Stanley Cup Finals and Stanley Cup streaks up to and including the 2023–24 NHL season and subsequent 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs. These lists do not include the canceled 2004–05 NHL season.
The NHL continued the split-season and playoff format upon the winding up of the NHA organization. Except for the 1919–20 season, when there was no playoff because Ottawa won both halves of the season, the champion of the NHL has been the playoff champion. The NHA champion was awarded the O'Brien Cup. This was continued by the NHL.