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 following is a glance at sports on TV, including channels, radio listings and game times for local games and national sporting events for May 19-25, 2025. Frequent TV channel numbers are listed at the bottom of the page. Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times Pacific.

FILE - Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid (97) works to get the puck past Dallas Stars center Wyatt Johnston (53) during the first period of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs, May 23, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) AP

Finland is well-represented in these NHL playoffs with 13 players on the rosters of the four teams in the conference finals.

Shanahan, who became the team's president in 2014, has already been connected to the same job with the Islanders

In the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Florida Panthers seized a 5-2 victory against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final,

The Toronto Maple Leafs yet again went out sad in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, losing Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals 6-1 to the Florida Panthers