The reigning Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights will be the last in the 2024 National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs.
The Knights secured their place in the eighth cup after a crushing 7:2 win against the Minnesota Wild in the regular season match. Thus, Vegas joins Dallas, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Colorado, Edmonton, Nashville and Los Angeles.
Anaheim, Arizona, Chicago, San Jose, Minnesota, Seattle, Calgary and St. Louis didn’t make the playoffs.
In February 2024, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) extended the suspension of the Russian national team. The organization stated that the IIHF Council will continue to monitor the situation and in May 2025 will consider the reintegration of the Russian and Belarusian national teams for the 2025/26 season.
In the spring of 2022, the IIHF decided to ban Russian players from participating in international tournaments, even with neutral status, and the organization also stripped Russia of the right to host the junior world championship in its home country in 2023.
It was previously reported that Andrey Kuzmenko scored a hat-trick. helped Calgary beat Anaheim.
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Source: Gazeta
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