The NHL Is Definitely, Maybe Back
The Lead
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🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the regular season was officially over, and the league would go directly to a new playoff format when play resumes -- perhaps as early as late July or early August. The Athletic’s Craig Custance joins us to discuss this new, 24-team postseason format, which teams could benefit, and why the level of play actually might be higher than what fans are used to.
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| 0:00.0 | on Tuesday NHL Commissioner Gary |
| 0:08.2 | Batman made an announcement. |
| 0:11.2 | I am delighted to be with you today to |
| 0:14.3 | announce the National hockey leagues plans |
| 0:17.1 | for our resumption of play. |
| 0:18.9 | They have concluded the regular seasons, but |
| 0:21.0 | will hold this family cup playoffs. |
| 0:23.2 | That playoff will consist of 24 teams as |
| 0:26.0 | proposed by the NHL Act suite. |
| 0:28.3 | Although we are anxious to get back on the ice, |
| 0:31.0 | we will not do anything until we are assured |
| 0:34.1 | by medical professionals and the relevant |
| 0:36.6 | government authorities that it is safe and |
| 0:39.2 | prudent to do so. |
| 0:41.0 | So the bottom line is the NHL is back. |
| 0:44.2 | Sort of. |
| 0:45.4 | Today we're joined by the athletics Craig |
| 0:47.2 | Custens to discuss this new postseason format, |
| 0:50.4 | which teams could benefit and why the level |
| 0:52.9 | of play actually might be higher than what we're used to. |
| 0:55.8 | Normally, when you get to the playoffs, |
| 0:58.0 | it's a long grind of a regular season. |
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