Sharpen the skates and ice down those pucks: The NHL is coming back. Commissioner Gary Bettman said today that 24 of the league’s 31 teams will resume play — the top 12 from each confer…
Phase 2 of the reopening plan — a return to club facilities for training in small groups — will begin in early June, but formal training camps won’t begin before July 1. Phase 4 will be in-conference round-robin games, playoff qualifying rounds and the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Those dates are to be determined, but Bettman said.
He added: “Obviously, we anticipate playing over the summer and into the early fall. At this time, we are not fixing dates because the schedule of our return to play will be determined both by developing circumstances the needs of our players.” “We believe we can get the qualifying and first two rounds of the playoffs completed in a little over a month,” Bettman said.the NBA’s shutdown
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