Sixteen teams in total make the NBA playoffs, eight teams from both the Eastern and Western Conferences. The top six seeds in each conference advance based on the regular season record. The final two ...

Tuesday's results saw nearly the entire playoff ... wild-card race. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Here's what to know about the NHL playoff bracket ...

The Canadiens defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Wednesday to clinch the final Wild Card playoff spot in the East. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues both clinched playoff ...

Legendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com ... Cup Playoff races down the stretch from bygone seasons. For many fans, following the wild-card race into the ...

There were six games on the NHL schedule Monday, three will playoff implications: ...

With just one month left of the NHL regular season, the Stanley Cup Playoffs picture ... first wild card position. They have some tough match-ups coming up against playoff teams, including games ...

(AP) — The wild-card berth has suited ... the year before that — for NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov. The back-to-back league points champion has gone 12 playoff games without a goal ...

“I assisted on your first NHL goal ... pacing the pack from mid-March on when the Wild fell into the Western Conference wild-card race. Overall, his 10 game-winning goals were a franchise ...

The Minnesota Wild are back in the NHL playoffs, and after a season threatened but never fully derailed by injury, they're getting healthy at the right time. The Wild locked down a playoff spot ...

Wild Playing Above Playoff ... NHL realigned and revamped the postseason format starting with the 2013-14 season, this is the fourth time Minnesota qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs as a wild ...