How Seasons, Standings and Playoffs work in the NHL | NHL 101 

I've been trying to get into hockey for a while and haven't been able to find any beginner friendly videos to break down the basics. Thank you!

Thank you so much for these videos! I’ve been binging them in preparation for the season to start because I want to start watching hockey, so I appreciate it!

I'm just now getting into hockey and loving every minute of it. Can't wait for next season cuz I know this one is about to come to an end. Let's go Dallas Stars

Trying to get into the nhl so I'm just learning the rules of it before knowing players

Thanks for the well structured video, im a hockey fan in my homecountry and had my difficulties with the devisions and play-off system of the NHL but now i know better :D

Awesome vid man. I've admired Hockey from afar for a while and now wanna get more into the sport

Thanks man, I'm slowly watching more and more NHL on the regular. Great video

I'm very late to comment, but I've recently been trying to learn about hockey and your videos have been fantastic. They are informative and you've helped grow my love of this fantastic sport

New to Hockey, these videos are much appreciated, and have provided most of the knowledge I have on the subject so far. Thanks!

Best channel to understand hockey basics

I am Brazilian and live in the Netherlands. Both countries have absolutely nothing to do with Ice Hockey. A couple of weeks ago I had a dream about Ice Hockey for no reason, out of the blue... then had another dream about it last night... and now here I am in a total ice hockey rabbit hole! I am even thinking of getting skates to go skate from time to time... haha Thanks for the video! It is anyways always cool to learn new things!

Glad someone on here is repping Seattle for once. I’m one of the new fans trying to get into the Kraken. I normally just like baseball, and I never really cared for football too much, so Im trying to learn for the upcoming debut.

Thank you for using the flame 50 win and 7 OTL for an easy math for us to see

Thank you so much. This is very useful for those like me who don't live in the US and do not know anyone interested in NHL :P

I’ve been watching hockey for over 30 years and seen a lot of changes happen in the NHL and you did a amazing job describing a nhl season and how to get into the playoffs you forgot to tell what happens though if 2 teams are tied for points after the 82 games but I still loved your video you got my subscription keep up with your awesome videos

very well said

Saw you were a Kraken fan like me. Funny story about Jordan Eberle. His 1st cousin was the flower girl at my parents wedding, still trying to snag that jersey

Today I was watching my Jays game when suddenly the broadcast started talking about the maple leafs playoffs game and after finishing the the baseball game I starting watching the NHL playoffs and it was amazing!! As a Venezuelan Im closer to the american Sports style events there is nothing like post-season games, I like football too but the emotions you get from post-season you can not get it at football at least it is world cup or Champions league. Btw thanks for Explain me how the NHL works!!

Great video

Amazing! Thank you for explaining man. New to the sport, super exciting. Only question: During the playoffs, lets say round 1 are each of the 8 games 7-game series? And so forth in Round 2? Eg: Does the pacific seed 2 play the seed 3 in a 7-game series in round 1 of the playoffs? Thanks in advance :)

GO Kraken!

After 5 times after watching the video, and reading a bunch of texts, I can say that I understood the scoring system, playoffs, and who is playing with whom and when "I was a little sick after". By the way, what do you think about the Carolina Hurricanes team. Thank you for explanation🇧🇦💙

Ok quick question. With the points of a game win and total points . does that include individual player points like from scoring or defenceve saves from a goalie ?

As an all around Seattle fan thank you for me helping me get into hockey. That being said how can you not like soccer when the Sounders are so good???

On a cheap seat shots binge and this is a great primer as we enter the playoffs

Have been slowly getting into NHL and NFL so thank you for explaining this (:

question about the wildcard teams... so eastern and western division top 3 teams go to the playoffs, so teams 1A, 2A, 3A (A = Eastern) and teams 1B, 2B, 3B (B = Western) since the playoffs require 8 teams the next 2 teams which are the wildcards are called wildcards, cause if the next two teams with most points that come after dont need to be 1 from each division, so the next 2 teams could be 4A, 5A, both from the eastern confrence instead of having to be 4A, and 4B... right???

Im english and ive been watching hockey in england for about 5 years now and i want to watch more NHL and playoffs and get to know the sport more I love hockey.

Thank you

How do the wild card positions get decided on who they play do they play the 1 seed in there division or can they play either 1 seed and it depends on point you might of said this and I overlooked it but i am a nba fan trying to get into the nhl

Great jersey man

this will be explainable

As an Australian who watches NRL, this conference stuff really got me confused but I’m glad this sorted cleared things up… I think.. GO KRAKEN

I know in hockey there are points instead of winning percentage but are points percentage and winning percentage the same thing?

My favorite sport

Im going to live in Toronto and I find hockey soo interesting but as a colombian I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT . Thank you so much for your channel

Hey im from england and have started getting into the nhl before the next season starts. I understand all the rules and how the stanley cup playoffs work but i am so confused about the "regular season" part in the video. Im getting confused on the conferences and divisions part as well as the number of games. I understand you are busy and was wondering if there's anywhere you recommend me to go to learn about it more? Thank you

My son loves these

So Professor, let me understand this correctly...If I wear a Tampa Bay Sweater, then I only get one point, whereas if I wear a Seattle Kraken Sweater I get 2 points and the ability to move ahead to the playoffs. Nice video, hope we get some new fans.

As an Aussie who has only just started watching American sports, I don't understand the whole 7-game series thing? any chance you could explain that part more in depth? Thanks in advance.

Does each wildcard team need to be in the same division as the 1 seed in each division?

5:04 “…who had a total of 132 points…” You said 132 points, and the screen says 135 points. I’m just knockin on you man for laughs, I appreciate the great video! 👍 I really do have a better understanding of hockey now!

Thanks for the video. It presented in a simple way for someone like me coming from a football background. But I have to say it's way too complicated for it's own good. In Europe, football leagues are simple. Each team plays against another team twice during the season, home and away. And that's it. This system of playing other teams like 4 times during the season...why? quite complicate I must say. But I do my best to get into hockey. Could you do an explanation of the. Swedish Hockey Leauge? would that be simpler than NHL?

can you explain the # of games people bet on in brackets?

yes the should play 84 games it would make so much more sense 32 v inter conference (2 each) 24 v interdivisional (3 each) 28 v divisional (4each) 84 games that is all fair and even! :D

Can someone explain this difference between a team winning a conference championship and a division championship? And how does the President's Trophy work. Am I right in thinking that it is awarded to the team with the most points out of all 32 teams at the end of a regular season.

So points are more important than wins technically correct? And the “seeding/ranks” are determined by overall points…..right??

82 games a season??!!!??? That's insane!!! I'm Australian and here we play AFL football (if you've never seen it, look it up) and we play during winter, every weekend from mid march till the end of September. It's 23 games. And if you play finals the most games a team can play in if they win is 4. Honestly if it was longer than that I think we'd all loose interest. How can you guys keep watching your team for 82 games?

Hi there 👋 My son plays ice hockey here in England but obviously not as big as in America... can you alibirate in English terms please as there isn't much knowledge here and I'm still struggling to understand the whole competition 😅😅 cheers

3rd time watching this video, im dead serious, i always come back cause i can never wrap my head around this shit

Can you do one about how the games in the Stanley cup work?? Do they seriously play eachother 7 times in only the first round?? 😳 In the UK im new to all this 😂 and I'm loving you 101 videos 😁

Mate in Canada sent me a bunch of punch on in hockey. We hear about It but never see. Started watching wow an figure should understand not just wait for fights. An thank you easy game an ya run it straight

Teams finishing top of the division or conference don't get any trophy? Is Stanley Cup the sole championship that the NHL teams are after?

Red Wings actually beat the Tampa Bay Lightning to the punch by winning 62 games in 1995-1996 and had 131 points total

I am so worried about my Predators hockey game this year because I want Predators to win each hockey game to make it into playoffs this year.

I got in hockey but as european the 80 games per team and the best of 7 games series drove me away...as football/soccer fan

I didn’t know that the concept of a shootout was very new

Been a hockey fan for a long time and tried to follow the nhl the best I've been able to but my focus is on the SHL since that's where I'm from and my home town plays. Knew most of the structure but I am confused over why you play 3 times against teams in your conference and not 2 or 4? Here in Sweden and the SHL they make it so no team ever has more home or away matches than anyone else. Now Sweden is much smaller than the US & Canada so having more games in the NHL is a given and I get that they wanna limit travel and breed rivalries. But here everyone faces eachother 4 times, 2 home and 2 away with a total of 14 teams so 52 games in a season. Also sidenote here in the SHL a win is worth 3 points, win in overtime 2 and loss in overtime 1 so there is a penalty for not finishing the job in regular time.

would be handy to have some info graphics. didnt understand anything

The video starts at 2:40

my ex loved soccer so trying to find a new sport to not think about her lmfao cheers mate

im more confused that the other leagues dont count points. im just trying to figure out NHL playoffs because there are so many different regions. SHL is simple for me lol

oMG MY BRAIN HURTS.... lol thankyou! side note- TAMPA BAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NHL is the best

Bro!! You need to work on the titles of the videos! It’s hard to find specific videos because of it.

found out my home team "Avalanche" is popping off so now I have to care about NHL

Great video and very helpful, but SLOW DOWN.

Bro you fuckin' saved my school project about the NHL. Thank u a lot!

I like your videos and simple explanations but I think you should change the intro, name, and logo

Came here for an explanation of Row. Didn’t get it :(

Not familiar with what a conference, division .etc. is. Think that's far more common in US sports than in Europe

Did anyone notice he changed his shirt throughout the video?

Just bought my first NHL jersey. Need to go to a game....unfortunately my team requires a COVID VACCINE CARD. I wont vax...so im stuck wearing my jersey at home SMH

Why isn't there a main league then if your playing every team kn the nhl I think they should have Overall standings of the NHL 1 through 32. First place are the winners of the NHL that season of course this would mean you also won your conference and division Western/Eastern conferences. First place inside the conference wins the conference so this would be the third best thing to win (I'll get to that) Then the divisions - first place in the division wins thier division. This would be the 4th best thing to win Then the playoffs - where all the teams that qualify play each other as usual and the winner gets the big trophy. This would be the second best thing to win as you beat all the best teams that season in a knockout format competition. Read my reply to see how the UK does hockey

About ties we only had one tie in owe Afl an they played agen as they didn't know what to do. Stkilda lost

Did you really mean "against their will" 😂😂😂

When’s the next expansion draft video

What hole do you breathe out of?

First

LoL 😂 mean I had 45 wins on NHL 23 and still missed the playoffs cause of points like wtf

Wtf you cooked overseas?

this answers a lot of questions but is still deeply confusing to my european brain, mostly just can't understand why you guys won't accept ties

I still don't understand shit.

Way to much info. We dont need old examples.