We have hockey in August, and several teams have already won their qualifying series to enter the playoffs.

So, they went from 24 teams in the qualifying round to the “playoffs.”

Then, how can the Coyotes’ qualifying series count as a “playoff series win”??? Like, can’t they (or, at least this one writer) get the facts right?

But apparently it’s an NHL thing, where they can’t decide if the qualifiers are the playoffs of not: