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The NHL’s return-to-play format is officially set. Whether the 24 teams involved get to use it depends on how the next steps unfold. Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Tuesday that the NHL’s regular season is officially over and, if and when play resumes, it will be in a 24-team playoff in two hub cities, with dates …

The NHL has formulated plans to open club training facilities for small-group on-ice and off-ice workouts as soon as next week in what the league is calling Phase 2 of its response to COVID-19. The league has steadfastly avoided putting a timetable on a potential summer return, but if all goes well in negotiations between …

I don’t care how many times you’ve heard the story. It never gets old. It never will get old. All those pages of the calendar that have turned in the interim must have been lies. Because it couldn’t have been 40 years ago. It must have been yesterday when … “I was thinking, ‘I don’t …

So what now of the Stigmatized Seven, those clubs who couldn’t play up to an NHL .500 level before the league entered its pause phase on March 12 and have thus been deemed unworthy of an invite to the league’s imagined 24-team Stanley Cup tournament? What about the fate, primarily as applies to the draft …

Should the NHL’s proposed 24-team, conference-based playoff format come to fruition, the New York Rangers would face the Carolina Hurricanes in a best-of-five play-in series to restart the 2019-20 season. The rearranged playoffs would be conference-based and remain bracketed, replacing the wild-card format the league has followed since 2013. The top four seeds in each …

The possibility of pro sports being played in New York again this year just got an important vote of approval. Gov. Andew Cuomo on Monday said he wants sports back in the state, even as New York continues to face hurdles in reopening during the coronavirus pandemic “I also have been encouraging major sports teams …

Not much draws a belly laugh these days, which is why I am so thankful to hear from the folks who are flipping out over a hypothetical 24-team Stanley Cup playoff because such a tournament might be lacking in the integrity department. Remind me where these fine, upstanding, guardians of the hockey galaxy were in …

The dynamic changes by the day, if not by the hour, but sources on both sides of the aisle have told The Post that the NHL’s reopening plan has shifted from completing the 2019-20 regular season to instead staging a 24-team tournament that would include a best-of-three play-in round. Global pandemic-related issues such as testing …

The NHL has been shut down because of the coronavirus, but that hasn’t stopped one of its players from getting into hot water on social media. Washington Capitals forward Brendan Leipsic was forced to apologize Wednesday after images of vulgar and insulting messages sent from his Instagram account surfaced on social media. Images of Leipsic’s …

Who doesn’t love rankings? Rankings exist to spark debate. Rankings are subjective, determined by opinions, educated or otherwise. Opinions can’t be wrong, Except, of course, when they are. Which brings us to the fun exercises in which the good folks at NHL.com have been intermittently engaged throughout this coronavirus-induced stoppage of play. A panel of …