Tony Androckitis of InsideAHLhockey.com has revealed that the league plans to remain with the current 23-team playoff format for the 2024-25 season, and only plans to look into making changes next summer once their Collective Bargaining Agreement ends.
This 23-team playoff format led to the AHL creating an additional playoff round which features a best-of-three round that includes six teams from the Eastern Conference and as many as eight teams from the Western Conference. Many fans felt this structure was very odd.
Fans and those involved in the AHL will be curious to know what happens to this playoff format at the end of next season. While many fans of the NHL have called on Gary Bettman to increase the number of teams that make it to the final dance, history shows that it isn't always that great to have many teams involved, as we have seen in the AHL.
Credit Blades of Steel:Board of Governors approves 23-team playoff format in 2025
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11 JUILLET | 244 ANSWERS 23-team playoff format approved by Board of Governors Do you think 23 teams making the playoffs is too much? | ||
Yes | 187 | 76.6 % |
No | 42 | 17.2 % |
The NHL should adopt this | 15 | 6.1 % |
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