2025 Stanley Cup playoffs

The 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs is the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2024–25 season. The playoffs began on April 19, 2025, and will conclude no later than June 20, 2025, with the Stanley Cup Finals.

The Winnipeg Jets made the playoffs as the Presidents' Trophy winners with the most points (i.e. best record) during the regular season, doing so for the first time in the franchise's history. They are also the first Canadian-based team since the 2011–12 Vancouver Canucks to accomplish this. The Toronto Maple Leafs extended their playoff streak to nine years, reaching the playoffs every season since 2017; this became the longest active playoff streak after the Boston Bruins, who were previously tied with them for the longest active playoff streak in the NHL, missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016, snapping an eight-year playoff streak. The New York Rangers became the fourth defending Presidents' Trophy winner to miss the playoffs and the first to do so twice. The Ottawa Senators qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2017, ending what had been the league's third-longest active playoff drought. For the first time in League history, all four of the U.S.-based Original Six teams missed the playoffs. For the first time since 2017, every team in Eastern Canada (the Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, and Toronto Maple Leafs) qualified for the playoffs. In addition, five Canadian-based teams qualified for the postseason, the most since the expanded 2020 playoffs, and the most in a 16–team playoff since 2017. For the first time since 2018, all three New York-based teams missed the playoffs, while for the third consecutive season, both Pennsylvania-based teams missed the playoffs.

For the first time since 2004, three Canadian teams advanced to the second round. One of the two Florida-based teams reached the semifinals/conference finals for the sixth consecutive season and ninth time in the last eleven years; furthermore, a Florida-based team appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals for the sixth consecutive season. For the first time since 2007, a Canadian-based team advanced to the Finals for the second consecutive season. For the first time since 2012, neither Finals opponents had home-ice advantage in any rounds prior to the Finals. It will also be the first rematch of Finals opponents since 2009. Leon Draisaitl became the first player in league history to score four overtime goals in one playoff year.

For the first time since 2016, no series will end in a four-game sweep.