National Hockey League pressed the pause button on their season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the quest for the Stanley Cup will begin on Saturday.Welcome to Stage 4 of the NHL’s return to play protocol — the playoffs.The non-traditional 24-team tournament features a dozen teams in the bubble cities of Toronto and Edmonton and while the top four teams in each conference (Boston, Tampa Bay, Washington, Philadelphia in the East, and St.
Louis, Colorado, Vegas and Dallas in the West) will play a round-robin format to determine where they will be seeded, the remaining 16 teams will square off in best-of-5 playoff qualifiers (seeded 5 through 12) that will provide us with the traditional 16 team playoff format.So as we enter the most.