Nhl Season Schedule 2020. The Stanley Cup Qualifiers will include 16 teams playing eight best-of-5 series and a round-robin among the top four teams in each conference will determine seedings for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The reasoning is predominantly financial in nature.
TV partners CBC Sportsnet TVA Sports Canada NBCSN NBC CNBC USA United States Draft. The season will be compressed with no All-Star break and will likely end in July of next summer. The league expanded to 32 teams with the addition of the Seattle Kraken.
The NHL will skip the remaining games in the original 2019-20 regular-season schedule and return to play with a tournament that is set to begin Aug 1.
Sat September 25 Sun September 26 Mon September 27 Tue September 28 Wed. The 202122 NHL season is the 105th season of operation 104th season of play of the National Hockey League NHL. Turner Sports in its first season of NHL coverage will feature a 50-game telecast schedule during the 2021-22 NHL regular season starting Wednesday Oct. The league returned to its normal October-to-April scheduling and a full 82-game regular season and began on October 12.