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Lockout Looming: Will The Ottawa Senators Play Hockey In 2021?

UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 29: New York Islander GM Lou Lamoriello chats with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman at NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum on February 29, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

With the clock ticking on the NHL and the NHL Players Association, a January 1st start date is beginning to look doubtful

It’s been a total of 255 days since the Ottawa Senators last played a game of NHL hockey and we sit here in the midst of November wondering how many more we’ll have to withstand. The NHL has elected to re-enter bargaining with the players association on the premise that the players accept an additional payment deferral.