2025 Stanley Cup playoffs
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | April 19 – mid-June |
| Teams | 16 |
| Defending champions | Florida Panthers |
← 2024 2026 → | |
The 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs will be the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2024–25 season. The playoffs are scheduled to begin on April 19, 2025, and will conclude in June 2025 with the Stanley Cup Finals with the series ending no later than June 23.[1]
Playoff teams
[edit ]This is the tenth year in which the top three teams in each division make the playoffs, along with two wild cards in each conference (for a total of eight playoff teams from each conference).
As of March 20, the following teams have qualified for the playoffs:[2]
Eastern Conference
[edit ]Media
[edit ]Canada
[edit ]In Canada, this marks the 11th postseason under Rogers Media's 12-year contract. Games will air across the Sportsnet networks and CBC under the Hockey Night in Canada brand. For first and second-round U.S.–U.S. games not on CBC, Sportsnet generally simulcasts the U.S. feed instead of producing their own telecast. The 2025 Stanley Cup Finals will be simulcast on both CBC and Sportsnet.[citation needed ]
United States
[edit ]In the U.S., this marks the fourth year of a seven-year agreement with the ESPN family of Networks and TNT Sports.[3] The ESPN networks have the first choice of which conference final series to air, and TNT Sports will broadcast the other conference finals. As per the alternating rotation, TNT Sports has coverage of the 2025 Stanley Cup Finals.[3] This is the fourth and final year under Sports USA Radio Network's deal to syndicate select Stanley Cup playoff games via NHL Radio across the U.S., including the entire conference finals and Stanley Cup Finals.[4]
References
[edit ]- ^ "2024-25 NHL KEY DATES" (PDF). National Hockey League . Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ^ "2024–25 Wild Card Standings". NHL.com.
- ^ a b Young, Jabari (April 27, 2021). "NHL moving to Turner Sports is 1ドル billion risk-reward for hockey". CNBC.com. CNBC LLC. Archived from the original on November 4, 2022. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
- ^ Shipley, Reice (October 8, 2021). "SportsUSA Grabs NHL's National Radio Rights". BarrettSportsMedia.com. Barrett Media. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
External links
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