You need to gain enough points (2 points for wins and 1 for overtime or shootout losses) in the regular season to make the playoffs. This number depends on all the teams performances (top-8 teams in each conference make the playoffs). Once you hit the postseason you need to win 16 games in total (4 for the conference quarterfinals, 4 for conference semifinals, 4 for the conference finals, and 4 for the Stanley Cup Finals).
41 regular season games or 1 Stanley cup final game.
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The Stanley Cup final format is a best 4 out of 7. The team that wins 4 games first is the winner. The fewest number of games that could be played is 4 and the highest number of games that could be played is 7.
The Stanley cup finals have only went up to 7 games and never past.
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Sweep has one syllable.
A sweep is when one team beats another team in every game of a series. You may see 2, 3, 4 game regular season sweeps depending on how many games are played in the series. A world series sweep would be four games won in a row by one team to start the series.
Twice: The Hurricanes lost to the Detroit Red Wings in 5 games in 2002 and won the Stanley Cup in 2006 by defeating the Edmonton Oilers in 7 games.
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