This podcast - Central Division Hockey - The Podcast; looks at the top 4 seeds in the round-robin – yes including Vegas – because let’s face it; how they do against St. Louis, Colorado & Dallas affects the seeding.
To get you up to speed, each Conference qualified 12 teams rather than 8 using a points percentage system when the regular season was postponed than cancelled so that if the tournament can be completed with awarding the Stanley Cup in this calendar year starting August 1st.
Based on the points the top 4 in each conference avoided a play in series, but instead will play a round-robin event to determine seeding for the next round. 3 Central Division teams qualified for the round-robin – St. Louis, Colorado, Dallas along with Vegas from the Pacific Division.
Projected rosters and analysis by position of the four round robin teams in the Western Conference NHL Playoffs.