Cities Line Up for a Shot at NHL’s Neutral-Site Playoffs

The NHL is drawing outside interest for neutral-site playoff games, which tells you the league’s looking at more than just the usual building-to-building grind. Cities are already making their case, because postseason hockey is still one of the easiest tickets in sports to sell when the stakes are real. The idea also hints at how the league keeps testing new ways to stage big games without handing the whole thing to the home-ice script.