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NHL adopts 24-team playoff format if it can resume season

by AP Hockey Writers
| May 26, 2020 2:03 PM

The NHL announced Tuesday it will abandon the rest of the regular season and go straight into the playoffs with 24 teams instead of 16 if it is able to resume play.

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