The reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers avoided the dreaded 0-3 series hole on the strength of an overtime goal Friday night to climb back into their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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 seeds in each conference are wild-card spots based on the best remaining records in each conference.

The entertainment value of the Stanley Cup playoffs so far has been through the roof. Despite the Vancouver Canucks’ absence from this spring, if you’re regularly tuning into NHL playoff games then you know that, without question, this is the best the NHL product has been in decades.