When the NHL consisted of only six teams, the top four finishers in regular season play made the playoffs. The first place team (winner of the Prince of Wales Trophy) played the fourth place team. The second and third place teams squared off. The winners of their respective series then met in the final for the Stanley Cup.
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Due to a lockout during the 2012-13 season, NHL teams will now play 48 games instead of their originally scheduled 82.
Lets see, 30 teams play 41 home games so that is 1230 regular season games plus playoff games.
It has 4 rounds, in which teams play up to 7 games, a minimum of 4.
In the 1980 NHL season, each of the 21 teams played 80 games.
None, because the NHL teams play to win the Stanley Cup.
There are 30 clubs in the NHL.
There does not seem to be information on the maximum number of NHL teams in the league. However, the maximum numbers of players on an NHL team is eighty players.
In the NHL you can play a maximum of 9 pre-season games. Teams often only play 7 or 8 pre-season or exhibition games. The league does not require each team to play the same amount of preseason games, unlike the NFL in which every team plays 4 pre-season games.
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No there are only 30 NHL teams.