It’s mid-October and usually the NHL would be kicking up into their regular season in a normal year. However, everything is thrown off and different this year, leading to wonder when the next season will start.
The league conducted it’s two most important and active moments of the off-season last week with the entry draft and the opening of free agency. Arbitration cases are scheduled for the very end of this month.
As of right now the official plan for the league is to start the season shooting for January 1st. This has already been pushed back from the very first target date of December 1st.