Good news, everybody! As the National Hockey League inches along towards the return of actual honest-to-goodness sporting contests, we have definitive progress in town and the next benchmark officially set by the NHL and NHLPA.
Phase 2 is players skating in small groups – six players or fewer – with specific controls designed to limit exposure and potential viral spread of COVID-19. The Flames had been working on the logistics over the past few days and apparently have everything ironed out.
Meanwhile, the start date for training camps is July 10 – provided everything in the NHL markets is sufficiently recovered at that point.