NHL's 24-team Return to Play proposal

[Frank E]

That's a month away...you'd have to think they've made some sort of internal decision on the hub cities, right?

I can't remember where, but I read that Las Vegas will be one

EDIT: https://coloradohockeynow.com/2020/06/10/daters-daily-links-it-appears-to-be-vegas-baby-as-nhl-hub-city/

Well, I'd guess then the Eastern one will be in the States too.

 

[Frank E]

So, NBA released their schedule:

? July 1 through July 7, 8 or 9 ? Required individual workouts for players on the 22 participating teams, with the end date coinciding with which day that team would arrive at the Disney campus.

? July 7, 8 and 9 ? Arrivals at the Disney campus in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

? July 9-29 ? Team training camps at Disney, which would follow initial health and safety screenings upon arrival.

? July 21 or 22 ? Start date for three intersquad scrimmages for each team. The scrimmages will be scheduled by the NBA and will have NBA referees.

? July 30-August 14 ? Seeding games at Disney. Games will resume. The NBA is still working on completing the schedule for those eight games per team, and the matchups will be based on regular-season games that remained when the league suspended play on March 11.

? Aug. 15-16 ? The two-game play-in series to determine the No. 8 seed in each conference, if necessary. The series would be necessary if the team in ninth place in either conference when the seeding games end is within four games of the No. 8 team. A best-of-two series would be played, with the ninth-place team needing to go 2-0 in those games to earn a playoff berth. Otherwise, the No. 8 team would take that seed and move into the conference quarterfinals.

? Aug. 17 ? Playoffs begin. This date would move up to Aug. 15 or 16 if the play-in series are unnecessary. The playoffs are all scheduled as traditional best-of-seven series.

? Aug. 30 ? A limited number of family members and guests of remaining teams will be permitted to arrive at Disney for the first time. They would stay on the Disney property. They will not be permitted until this point in the schedule.

? Aug. 31-Sept. 13 ? Conference semifinals.

? Sept. 15-28 ? Conference finals.

? Sept. 30-Oct. 13 ? NBA Finals. The league originally planned an Oct. 12 end date, though that has now been adjusted.

Not sure if this affects NHL plans...

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1271509692666253313

Based off the schedule Frank posted above, NBA players wouldn't see their families for almost 2 months.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1271509692666253313

Based off the schedule Frank posted above, NBA players wouldn't see their families for almost 2 months.

That's not acceptable.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/11/nevada-uptick-coronavirus-cases-not-second-wave/

They aren't exactly corona free in the state. It could very well be higher than Toronto.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/11/nevada-uptick-coronavirus-cases-not-second-wave/

They aren't exactly corona free in the state. It could very well be higher than Toronto.

The NBA is playing in Florida (in the red) and the NHL is expected to play in Neveda (orange sandwiched between red).

A month ago suggesting playing in New York would probably have been insane. And who knows what happens a month from now, maybe NY will get a 2nd wave and the places in red will start to show decreases, but this kinda just shows how impossible it can be to plan around this.

 

[herman]

Just tap out now. Start the next season semi properly in October.

 

[Bender]

Just tap out now. Start the next season semi properly in October.

Or just do it in Canada and just bloody quarantine. Why are we looking for places with lax rules? It's antithetical to how disease works.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

https://twitter.com/jasongay/status/1272700102373707778

 

[CarltonTheBear]

In a typical NHL offseason, there's a two-month window that players and their partners view as the life-event safe zone. No games or training camps or league obligations on the schedule. The perfect time to plan a vacation or a wedding or, in the case of Jordie Benn and his fianc?e, Jessica Kohout, the birth of their first child.

"We definitely thought we nailed the timing. You obviously want to be around for the birth of your kid. You want to be able to hang out for at least a couple of weeks or a month when they're brand new like that," said Benn, a defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks.

"We thought we planned it perfectly. And then this whole pandemic started."

...

"There's no way I'm going to miss the birth of my first child," he said. "Everybody can have their own outlook on the birth of a child, but I'm a very family-oriented person. I wouldn't let Jess be in that hospital, having my child, without me there. I don't think that's fair. I'll find a way to get around this."

Neat article looking into how a number of NHLers are planning on handling the upcoming birth of their children this summer in the midst of the NHL's plan to return to play.

Also mostly just wanted to post it so I could share this Mark Lazerus quote that came up as well:
https://twitter.com/MarkLazerus/status/1273107839259758594

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/1274026111836532737

Bob then reported in the next tweet that the team in question was the Lightning.

 

[herman]

Shouldn?t have done that jet ski video eh

 

[herman]

Welp

 

[Frank E]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-narrows-hub-city-list-to-six-pittsburgh-dallas-out-1.1488667

So it's down to 2 of Vegas, LA, Chicago, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto.

 

[Kin]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-narrows-hub-city-list-to-six-pittsburgh-dallas-out-1.1488667

So it's down to 2 of Vegas, LA, Chicago, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto.

It still seems crazy to me that there's a chance they won't have a city be in the Eastern time zone but I guess if fans aren't coming and it's just a big empty TV studio they can make the players play at noon or something.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-narrows-hub-city-list-to-six-pittsburgh-dallas-out-1.1488667

So it's down to 2 of Vegas, LA, Chicago, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto.

It still seems crazy to me that there's a chance they won't have a city be in the Eastern time zone but I guess if fans aren't coming and it's just a big empty TV studio they can make the players play at noon or something.

Putting it Vegas kind of seems to me like a forbidden fruit thing. "Let's take a very large group of 20-35 year olds and put them in Vegas for a couple months. Don't worry, we won't let their wives go"

 

[Frank E]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-narrows-hub-city-list-to-six-pittsburgh-dallas-out-1.1488667

So it's down to 2 of Vegas, LA, Chicago, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto.

It still seems crazy to me that there's a chance they won't have a city be in the Eastern time zone but I guess if fans aren't coming and it's just a big empty TV studio they can make the players play at noon or something.

I want to watch some live games.  I think most Eastern teams' fans want to watch some live games too.  I'd bet the Eastern tournament is in Toronto.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Even if both sites were in the west it's pretty much a guarantee that the games will be timed to give priority to EST viewers.

 

[Bullfrog]

Agreed; everyone knows we're more important.

 

[ZBBM]

This whole plan is utterly ridiculous.  They just reported the second-highest number of new cases in the US since April.  Not only is it indefensible from a moral and public health standpoint, how many fans, at this point, are really hungering for some kind of weirdo tournament just so they can hand out a trophy emblazoned with a huge asterisk in front of stands full of cardboard cutouts with fake cheering in the background?