This year's 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs will look a bit different ... So if there are no play-ins, how does the NHL's format work? With the NHL playing in a four-division format this year for ...

On Sunday, the NHL and NHLPA announced the formalized ... best-of-seven, four-round playoff format. Four teams from each division will qualify for the playoffs. The first two rounds will be ...

MORE: First-round schedule, odds for 2021 Stanley Cup chase With ... division champ will relocate to an NHL city (whose team did not make the playoffs) south of the border.

The Stanley Cup playoffs have a different format this year because of the NHL’s truncated regular season. Normally, the top three teams in each division and the two best teams in each conference ...

Outside of the modified 2020 and 2021 tournaments due to COVID-19, the NHL has used the same Stanley Cup playoffs format since 2013-14 when it introduced its current postseason setup. Over the ...

And then comes the Stanley Cup Final, which usually ends up being a battle between two of the better teams in the league (although 2021 ... NHL choose to not make a change to the playoff format?

With a month remaining in the NHL regular season ... but going into the 10th season of this format (the 2020 and 2021 playoffs were altered due to COVID), the same matchups have become stale ...

The NHL and NHLPA have agreed on a 56-game season starting on Jan. 13. Here's your guide to all the details we now know.

but going into the 10th season of this format (the 2020 and 2021 playoffs were altered due to COVID), the same matchups have become stale and in certain instances unfair. Should the NHL switch to ...

And then comes the Stanley Cup Final, which usually ends up being a battle between two of the better teams in the league (although 2021 ... NHL choose to not make a change to the playoff format?