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The NHLPA began voting on the plan Thursday. The NHL’s proposal called for scrapping the rest of the regular season and starting postseason play with 24 teams grouped in two “hub” cities. The top four teams in each conference, as determined by points percentage, would play a round-robin series against one another that could affect their seeding; the other eight teams would play a best-of-five series to determine who would advance and face the top four teams. Every series after the first round would be best-of-seven. No spectators would be allowed, at least initially.
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So what does this all really mean?"

The NHLPA's very carefully worded statement makes it clear that essentially nothing is set in stone just yet, but there are a few things we can take away from this as fairly reasonable conclusions. First, the season for the bottom seven teams in the NHL -- the Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres -- is over and so then is the regular season. There is also a chance that this could reignite the league's desire for an early draft.

One of the main obstacles to a June draft was the fact that the season had not yet concluded and it was unknown how many teams would be in the playoffs. That made it difficult to determine how to conduct a draft lottery. The 24-team plan will now go to the NHL Board of Governors for approval and, assuming they sign off on this format as agreed to by the NHLPA, we will know the seven teams who will definitely not be in the playoffs which would eliminate any possibility of the lottery winner also being the eventual Stanley Cup champion.

In terms of bringing us closer to the return of hockey, this is a step in the right direction, but just a small one. The other issues such as safety protocols and players' access to their families during the postseason are the much more difficult issues to figure out and still need to be determined before the league can resume play.
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John Chayka on the 24-team format: "My take on this is we’re playing in the postseason. Some teams aren’t playing anymore. We still are. I think it’s semantics to term it one way or the other."
 
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