harmfuljays wrote:
So...what's this going to look like regionally? I'll give it a go...basically we'd be going back to the old divisions with different teams (pre 2013) plus a Canadian flair.
NE Atlantic Hub
Rangers
Devils
Bruins
Islanders
Mid Atlantic Hub
Flyers
Penguins
Sabres
Capitals
SE Atlantic Hub
Hurricanes
Nashville
Tampa
Florida
Central Hub
Detroit
Chicago
Minnesota
Columbus
South Central Hub
Dallas
Colorado
St Louis
Arizona
Pacific Hub
Anaheim
San Jose
LA
Vegas
Canada East Hub
Toronto
Montreal
Ottawa
Winnipeg (flights are cheaper and times are easier)
Canada West Hub
Edmonton
Vancouver
Calgary
Please note Teams play in their own rinks within their Hub groups.
NHL can run with this any time they want! I've even helped them out with temp titles.... Just hurry up and pick a damn date to start. If it were only so easy........are they running with a full season? So far I've heard its hubs and 2 weeks on 1 week off. I would assume the hub that gets a week off is staggered between the others so we can have continual play.
Not a big fan of another abbreviated Cup Winner but I suppose it is what it is. Will be the COVID years.....
Would also imagine (right or wrong) that these sports guys are first or second in line for the vaccines.
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“You’ll play for 10 to 12 days. You’ll play a bunch of games without traveling. You’ll go back, go home for a week, be with your family. We’ll have our testing protocols and all the other things you need,” Bettman said.
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Daly wrote “the objective remains to start as early as Jan. 1” and “to play a schedule that may conclude by the end of April.” Under this scenario, the regular season would be shortened to the neighborhood of 48-56 games before the playoffs.
Daly added the NHL would like to hand out the Stanley Cup before the summer and then return to a normal 82-game season from October to April for the 2021-22 campaign.
The NHL is studying the idea of starting in four different hub cities for 2020-21. Teams would spend about two weeks in a hub, then return to their home cities for one-week breaks. At least to start, the seven Canadian teams would be in their own division because of border restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It wouldn’t make sense for the NHL to go back to Edmonton or Toronto, where the playoffs were completed in the summer of 2020, but places like Montreal, Vancouver and Winnipeg may be good landing spots because they have the necessary rinks and facilities.
https://ottawasun.com/sports/hockey/nhl ... s-thursdayQuote:
• As far as I can tell, the largest remaining unsettled issue involves player salaries. To them, this issue is settled. They signed a CBA extension last summer agreeing to 72 per cent of their gross pay for the upcoming season. They feel this number is set whether they play one game or 70-something games. However, owners feel those salaries should be prorated, especially if there’s no clear path to attendance — creating losses higher than anything 20 per cent escrow would withstand.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nh ... xt-season/Yikes!