The first round through to the finals remained as best-of-seven series. The eight lower seeded teams in each conference played in the qualifying round, a best-of-five series to advance to the next round. In the opening round of the 24-team playoff format, the top four teams in each conference played each other in a separate Seeding Round-robin to determine the seeding in the first round. The seeds would be based on each club's points percentage when the season paused on March 12, effectively scrapping the remainder of the regular season. The details of the plan were announced publicly on May 26. On May 22, the league and the NHLPA agreed on a basic framework to stage a 24-team playoff tournament behind closed doors, conducted in two neutral "hub" cities to help protect teams from the virus. One day later, the NHL announced that the 2019–20 season had been paused indefinitely. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic, and later that day, the National Basketball Association suspended all games after players tested positive for the disease. Paths to the finals Return to play ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire series was held at Rogers Place in Edmonton. The Dallas Stars set the record for most playoff games played by a team in a single postseason at 27 games. This was the first Stanley Cup Final since 1950 to feature a neutral site game and the first Stanley Cup Finals to feature two teams from the American Sun Belt ( Texas and Florida).
This was the first Stanley Cup Final series since 1925 to be played entirely outside the Eastern Time Zone, the first since 1928 to be played entirely in one location, the first since 1989 to be played entirely in Canada, and the first since 2011 to have the Stanley Cup awarded in a Canadian arena. Thus it became the first Stanley Cup Finals to be played in the month of September. The pandemic resulted in the league suspending the regular season on March 12, 2020, and then scheduling a special 24-team playoff format to be held in two neutral "hub cities" ( Edmonton and Toronto) that began on August 1.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire series was played behind closed doors at Rogers Place in Edmonton. The series began on September 19 and concluded on September 28. The Lightning had home-ice advantage in the series with the better regular season record.
The Lightning won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, for their second championship in franchise history. This series was between the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Western Conference champion Dallas Stars. The 2020 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2019–20 season and the culmination of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs. (NBC/NBCSN) Mike Emrick, Eddie Olczyk, and Brian Boucher
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