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2019-20 Miscellaneous NHL/Hockey News Thread

These days schools rarely add mens sports because of title 9. If anything they are more likely to cut a mens sport. And of course adding a new sport means the athletic budget has to increase to pay for gear, travel, practice time on ice, etc.
 
NHL discussing holding draft in June even if that's before the season ends. Draft order would have to be tweaked for that to happen.
 
That will be a bit strange. Let's say someone wants to trade a 1st round pick for a Jake Gardiner at the draft. How will that work? Will Gardiner still play out the rest of the 19-20 season with the Canes if the league is able to play some games? Will Gardiner just have to shut down for the rest of the 19-20 season?

Its not unworkable, but you are either going to have some very unusual situations with traded players OR you are going to have to completely shut down trades involving players.
 
There is a lot to work out. Players have already been paid their full season salary, they only get paid for the regular season. Contracts expire on June 30. Do Foegele, Williams, Edmundson, TVR and Fleury keep playing? Foegele and Fleury are restricted the others aren’t. Might we see Sami Vatanen, also on an expiring contract?
 
If they play past June 30 then the UFA/RFAs will keep playing . If not then some teams will lose more players than others and that would not be fair. I expect everybody on the roster now to keep playing as long as the season is going on even if it's in July or Aug.
 
This is all precisely why I don't like all the scenario floating we're getting from Bill Daly and the league office. These are half baked schemes at best, and he's clearly just throwing nonsense up on the wall to judge the reaction. Knock it off.
 
Latest scheme I read is 1 "host" city per division, rather than the single neutral site spitballed earlier, each of which would have to host up to 3 games per day... I wondered how 1 site would work - it would be like beer league - empty barn AND "Who's got the 11pm game tonight?" Raleigh's on the speculation list there BTW.


Hey, I'd rather talk about this stuff than how many people died today, the shitshow in the WH, or worry about is my son's mask still protecting him and is he not touching his face all day while he works at Target.
 
So um... Raleigh would bring in 160+ athletes, coaches, staff from... New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and DC this summer? That seems less than ideal.
 
Don't think Raleigh would be picked but anything is possible. Local people may veto the idea.

I think the plan would be players would go direct to the hotels and only leave for games. They could probably do takeout food as well as eating at the hotel restaurant. They could stay at Cary Embassy suites to make it a quick trip. I think the North Hills hotel is also used by visiting teams.
 
That's pretty much asking four cities to hold a huge event during a global pandemic though... I'm in emergency services in Toronto and I'd be absolutely livid if our public officials OK'd this.
 
Dreger subtweeted Andy Slater, who covers the Panthers. Michael Russo, who covers the Wild for The Athletic, said 2/3 of the clubs have been eliminated from consideration.

 
I think biggest cities like NYC , Chicago , etc would not be on the list. I could see Winnipeg, Calgary, and other smaller cities on the list , maybe that's why Raleigh is mentioned. Maybe Dundon said he would be OK with it.
 
I have no doubt any of the owners would be OK with it. But they'll need a lot of cooperation from the both federal governments re border issues and state and local officials. Seems like a total pipedream.
 
Toronto ,Montreal, NYR, big market teams have plenty of money so I don't know they would OK it. But then again some people figure any additional money is great no matter what. Also some people are willing to risk death to go out to stores that are closed now.
 
Seems like a total pipedream.

Like virtually everything else the NHL has talked about since they shut down.

I like the concept of chopping things down to four units, since that's more palatable than dumping everybody in one location. But finding four local and State (because this has to be in the US for border control reasons) governments to buy in seems REALLY farfetched at this point. Everybody has bigger fish to fry at the moment, for starters.
 
The quarantine issue alone doesn’t allow for cross border travel. The virus doesn’t live forever on surfaces so as long as designated arenas aren’t exposed to infected personnel that should be ok but dang the logistics of it would be a nightmare.

I would think that they would find small arenas to play games in if it’s televised only. The bigger the arenas the harder to control. Plus rural areas aren’t hit as hard. It can be done but where?
 
The quarantine issue alone doesn’t allow for cross border travel. The virus doesn’t live forever on surfaces so as long as designated arenas aren’t exposed to infected personnel that should be ok but dang the logistics of it would be a nightmare.

I would think that they would find small arenas to play games in if it’s televised only. The bigger the arenas the harder to control. Plus rural areas aren’t hit as hard. It can be done but where?
You'd have to start with suitable municipalities that would be willing to go lobby their State governments for the exemptions required to even make it a do-able plan. Surely some rube of a city somewhere is up for it, but is their Governor willing to play ball? And are the Federal Health authorities? Does your television partner even want to staff these games and televise them, or do they plan on subcontracting it all out to avoid risk? You need to know that stuff before you go spitballing these ideas to the general public ... unless of course, simply spitballing ideas to show that you're "trying to do something" is really the point ... which is what I suspect.
 
Georgia, SC, and Tenn. look like they are ready to open a lot of stuff. For SC they could play in Greenville or N. Charleston in small buildings.

They have scrapped the idea of using neutral sites

 
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