The majority of hockey enthusiasts throughout the World are hoping for the season to reconvene at some point. Talks throughout the league continue to ensue weekly, with the NHLPA and NHL working together, hand-in-hand to see that this happens. The NHLPA BOG voted yes to a 24 team playoff format, that consists of the top 4 teams in each conference to play a best of five series against each other for seeding purposes, followed by the 8 extra teams (Making 24 teams total) would also play a best of five series with the winners of course advancing to a 16 team play-in playoffs.
More information was released last week in terms of the qualifying rounds, and reseeding in the playoffs. Here’s the full breakdown:
The NHL and NHLPA got it right. The 24 NHL team format will include a best of 5 series for Qualifying rounds (Only), and the Round Robin (Top 4 teams in the Conferences) will be a one game playoff. All four rounds of the Playoffs (Play-In) will be best of 7’s, with reseeding after each round, highest seed vs lowest seed in each conference. I just want to add that the Flyers can move up from the 4th seed to the first seed in the Eastern Conference.
Great news right!!! The greatest sport on Earth is close to reconvening, and the Flyers could regain the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Most Flyers fans say drop the puck now, while others are still worried about the overall health of the athletes, trainers, media personnel, broadcasters, and other personnel, as well. Scheduling next season is also a big issue for some people, as well (For good reason). As it stands the first game wouldn’t take place until early August at the earliest, furthermore next season could possibly be pushed back to January. But the news gets better. The NHL plans to move into Phase 3 by July 10:
Hockey is almost back folks, alive and well. Letttttts gooooo Flyers, “We want the cup, We want the Cup.” Let’s go Flyers duh-duh-da-da-duh. I guarantee the beast in Ivan Provorov will ride his rollerblades to the Skate Zone on opening day of Training Camp, and continue his 16 hour days of workouts. The young man is impressive, and I will leave you with a hell of a goal from this past season from Provorov:
