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Bettman: NHL looking at temporary realignment, hubs for next season
There is still a lot we do not know about the 2020-21 NHL season, ranging from when it will begin to what it might look like when it does begin.
On Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman shared some possibilities during a virtual panel discussion.
One of the possibilities mentioned by Bettman is a hybrid hub system that would rotate teams in and out of them throughout the season.
“You’ll play for 10 to 12 days,” Bettman said during the summit, via NHL.com’s Nick Cotsonika. “You will 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. It’s not going to be quite as effective as a bubble, but we think we can, if we go this route, minimize the risks to the extent practical and sensible. And so that’s one of the things that we’re talking about.”
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The league is still hoping for a January 1 start date.
Given the increase in COVID cases in the United States and Canada as the winter months approach it is pretty obvious that this season will not be a traditional NHL season. Whether it is played in front of empty home arenas, or in some sort of a hybid bubble, with realigned divisions and a shortened scheduled the league is going to have to adapt in some way. They apparently have ideas. Which ones get finalized with the Return To Play committee remain to be seen.
Entire article:https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/11/1...t-temporary-realignment-hubs-for-next-season/
Just sayin': Wouldn't you think the NHL would have a definite plan in place for the 2020-2021 deson by now?
There is still a lot we do not know about the 2020-21 NHL season, ranging from when it will begin to what it might look like when it does begin.
On Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman shared some possibilities during a virtual panel discussion.
One of the possibilities mentioned by Bettman is a hybrid hub system that would rotate teams in and out of them throughout the season.
“You’ll play for 10 to 12 days,” Bettman said during the summit, via NHL.com’s Nick Cotsonika. “You will 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. It’s not going to be quite as effective as a bubble, but we think we can, if we go this route, minimize the risks to the extent practical and sensible. And so that’s one of the things that we’re talking about.”
.
.
.
The league is still hoping for a January 1 start date.
Given the increase in COVID cases in the United States and Canada as the winter months approach it is pretty obvious that this season will not be a traditional NHL season. Whether it is played in front of empty home arenas, or in some sort of a hybid bubble, with realigned divisions and a shortened scheduled the league is going to have to adapt in some way. They apparently have ideas. Which ones get finalized with the Return To Play committee remain to be seen.
Entire article:https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/11/1...t-temporary-realignment-hubs-for-next-season/
Just sayin': Wouldn't you think the NHL would have a definite plan in place for the 2020-2021 deson by now?
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