Back Stanley-Cup-Playoffs 2024 German Séries éliminatoires de la Coupe Stanley 2024 French Плей-офф Кубка Стэнли 2024 Russian
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| Dates | April 20 – TBD |
| Teams | 16 |
| Defending champions | Vegas Golden Knights |
The 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs is the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2023–24 season. The playoffs began on April 20, 2024, and will conclude no later than June 24, 2024, with the 2024 Stanley Cup Finals, to determine the winner of the Stanley Cup.[1][2]
The New York Rangers made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. best record) during the regular season. Both the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs extended their respective playoff streaks to eight consecutive seasons, the longest active streaks in the NHL.[3] For the second year in a row and third time since entering the NHL as expansion teams in the 1967–68 NHL season, both Pennsylvania-based teams (the Flyers and Penguins) missed the playoffs in the same season.
For the fifth consecutive season, and eighth in the last ten seasons, a Florida-based team made it to the penultimate round.[4] For the first time since 2015, the New York Rangers became the only Presidents' Trophy-winning team to hold this award twice and advance to the semifinal round of the playoffs in the last ten years.[5] For the first time since 2018, three of the four conference finalists, the Rangers, Panthers and Stars, were their respective division champions.[6] For the fifth consecutive season, a team from Florida qualified for the Stanley Cup Finals.[7] During game four of the Stanley Cup Finals, Connor McDavid set the playoff record for most assists in one year, eclipsing the previous record set by Wayne Gretzky in 1988.[8]
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- ^ Nugent-Bowman, Daniel (June 15, 2024). "Connor McDavid breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for most assists in a single playoff". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2024.