NHL schedule for 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers in league’s Return to Play - NHL

The 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers will begin on Saturday, Aug.

The Stanley Cup Qualifiers will be best-of-5 series with the losing teams being entered into Phase 2 of the NHL Draft Lottery.

Below is a full 2020 NHL playoffs schedule of both the round-robin and the Stanley Cup Qualifiers.

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Matt Murray will get the start for the Penguins in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup Qualifying series against the Canadiens.

After Jarry impressed this season, it will be interesting to see how long the leash is on Murray if he struggles.

“We’ll take each game as it comes, but we feel good about the goaltending tandem that we have.”.

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The Rangers and Hurricanes are wasting no time creating playoff-level hatred in Game 1 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers.

It took little time for Rangers – Hurricanes Game 1 to heat up.

Would the Hurricanes have scored that goal if the Rangers didn’t have an injured player on the ice.

The Rangers announced that Fast is not expected to return to Game 1

Game 1 of Rangers – Hurricanes remains at 1-0 as of this writing

Henrik Lundqvist will get the start for the Rangers against the Hurricanes in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup Qualifier series

New York was one of a handful of teams facing a goalie decision ahead of the Qualifying Round (Carolina was one of those teams and will start Petr Mrazek)

For his case, Hank has enjoyed success against the Hurricanes. He won all three starts against Carolina during the regular season, stopping at least 39 shots in each game and recording a .947 save percentage

This could be the final run for Lundqvist with the Rangers

His contract doesn’t expire until after the 2020-21 NHL season, but Shesterkin emerged as the No

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Carolina, despite being a wild card team a season ago, reached the Eastern Conference Final in what was its first playoff appearance since 2009

New York is back in the postseason after missing the playoffs the previous two years

Since 2006, the Rangers have made the playoffs 12 of 15 seasons

At the time of the stoppage, the Rangers sat two points outside the second wild card but were one of the hottest teams in the league, winning 11 of 17 games (11-5-1) since February 9 – only Colorado had more points in this span

The Rangers swept the four-game season series, their second time in the last three seasons taking all of the meetings against Carolina

With 38 goals in 68 games, Sebastian Aho set a career high in his fourth year in the league after reaching 30 goals for the first time last season

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