When the NHL announced its new 24-team playoff format, it also declared the regular season completed. That means that the 189 games remaining on the regular season calendar will not be played, and all regular season statistics are final.
The league also announced that the qualifying round and round robin games are not technically playoff games, creating a kind of limbo between the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs.
A lot of questions have been raised about the stats in these purgatorial games for record-keeping purposes. It seems we now have an answer:
From the Dept.