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Take off Wednesdays & igrave; April 13 with the dispute of the first three games of the race 1 of the NHL playoffs leading to the award of the Stanley Cup in early June.
Tuesday 12 April 2016 3 minutes reading time
The defending champions, the Chicago Blackhawks, who qualified to the post-season as the third classified Central Division will try to repeat itself, a company that nell''albo of 'gold NHL missing from 1997/1998 when the repeat was the prerogative of the Detroit Red Wings.
The eighteen years dall''ultimo bis are nothing compared to other numbers: just the Red Wings, who nabbed the top-playoff second, celebrating a streak of 25 consecutive participations in the post-season, the 'ultimate elimination It took place on 1 April 1990. becoming the quarters in the history of the league to reach this milestone: the first of them 29 years of the Bruins from 1968 to 1996, 28 years of Blackhawks from 1970 to 1997 and 25 years of Blues 1980-2004. & nbsp;
It should, however, dates back to 1970, the 'last time in which the grid of the playoffs are not Canadian franchises extras (the subjects of the' Maple Leaf also missing the Stanley Cup since 1993) and the fact there & egrave; quite a feat for Sportsnet television network that in 2014 he signed with the NHL a 12-year agreement for the rights to the value of pi & ugrave; 5 billion dollars over the next three months it will be found & agrave; the usual appointments, rich in advertising & agrave; and returns, in prime time.
Continuing to talk about numbers, these will be the playoffs number 19 for 'steel Jaromir Jagr, the first that the dispute with the coat of the Florida Panthers, who have not won a series in the post-season since 1996, which in the playoffs has all''attivo 199 points in the playoffs: if, as likely, in the series against the Islanders put it on the scoresheet at least one would reach Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and Glenn Anderson nell''esclusivissimo circle of players over 200 points in the post-season.
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THE PROGRAM OF THE FIRST ROUND
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