If you're looking for a printable 2018 NHL brackets or NHL playoff brackets then you came to the right place. Doc's Sports has been in the sports information business since 1971 and each NHL season we provide our readers with printable NHL brackets and will continue to archive this information for future NHL playoffs reference. Our 2018 printable NHL Playoffs Bracket will be updated after each round so be sure to book mark this page and stop back to print out the updated copy. Enjoy the NHL Playoffs!

In the first two rounds, the higher-seeded team has home-ice advantage (regardless of point record). For all others, it goes to the team with the better regular season record (regardless of seeding); in case of a tie, the league's standard tiebreaking procedure is applied. The team with home-ice advantage hosts games one, two, five, and seven, while the opponent hosts games three, four, and six (games five through seven are played if necessary).