Each team's mandatory bye week, stipulated in the league's CBA, was also scattered throughout the month of January. Furthermore, the league did not include a break for the Olympics in its schedule, and scheduled its All-Star Game as usual for late-January shortly prior to the Olympics (historically, the All-Star Game was not played during Olympic years).
On April 3, 2017, the NHL announced that, after five Olympic tournaments in which the NHL allowed its players to participate in the event, it would not do so for the men's hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In June 2017, the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft was held to fill out the Golden Knights roster. The team plays in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. On June 22, 2016, the NHL confirmed that it had granted an expansion franchise in the city of Las Vegas to an ownership group led by Bill Foley, whose identity was revealed as the Vegas Golden Knights on November 22. The 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs began on April 11, 2018, and concluded on June 7, with the Washington Capitals winning their first Stanley Cup in the Finals over the Vegas Golden Knights in five games. The regular season began on October 4, 2017, and ended on April 8, 2018.
With the addition of a new expansion team, the Vegas Golden Knights, 31 teams competed in an 82-game regular season. The 2017–18 NHL season was the 101st season of operation (100th season of play) of the National Hockey League.
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