Work remains before NHL can drop the puck for 2020-21 season
Hockey is back just on the other side of the holidays. A shade more than three weeks before puck drop, the NHL and NHL Players’ Association formally approved on Sunday a 56-game regular season slated to begin on Jan. 13. It’s quite literally going to be a sprint to Lord Stanley. Training camps for all 31 teams open in two weeks, setting off a scramble for players to make their way back to their playing cities, contending with quarantines and holidays at home. Once it arrives, a 56-game campaign will be crammed into just 116 days - nearly one game for every two days - in a baseball-style ...