A reminder that the NHL is willing to delay the start of next season until November in order to finish off this season if possible with summer hockey. NHL believes they can play a full season next year starting in November, cancel ASG/bye week, play playoffs into late June '21
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Report: NHL considering starting 2020-21 season in November
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By Zach Laing
Apr 14, 2020, 15:21 EDTUpdated: Apr 14, 2020, 15:29 EDT
The National Hockey Leauge may start its 2020-21 season in November.
According to TSN’s Pierre LeBrun, the league is now willing to delay the start of next year until November in order to finish off the 2019-20 season.
It’s a slight change of tone for the league, who has been seemingly headstrong on the 2020-21 league season not being delayed and played in full.
If this were to happen, it would mean that the league would see playoff games into June of that season; and for this year, we may see the league looking to hand out the Stanley Cup in August, or maybe even September.
In order to make a 2020-21 season work, the league could, in theory, cancel the NHL all-star week as well as not have bye weeks for clubs.
The league, too, appears to have asked players and staff to extend their self-quarantine to April 30th.
The NHL has extended the self-quarantine period for players and staff to April 30.
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