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What’s the latest in the NHL’s return-to-play hopes?

If the NHL takes the ice on January 1st for their 2020-21 season, there will be players — through no fault of their own — who haven’t set foot in a rink for competitive game play since early- to mid-March.

That, of course, is the league’s best-case goal for the upcoming year. Since their bubble-city-hosted 2020 playoffs, they’ve been insisting to fans that the goal is to start a season at the New Year and play an 82-game season, capping things off with a postseason that they hope to finish before July 15th. They’ve already cancelled their outdoor games and All Star festivities, pushing aside all extraneous events as they desperately attempt to pull together a season in time.