NHL commisoner Gary Bettman, Ryan O'Reilly #90 St. Louis Blues (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
The NHL and NHLPA hope to begin negotiations regarding a mid-January start. St. Louis Blues fans should not hold their breath for long.
Once upon a time, St. Louis Blues fans held out a faint hope that we might get a pre-Christmas start to the 2020-21 season similar to what the NBA has planned. That hope came and went.
We hoped, in vain, that when the NHL announced they were pushing for a January 1 start that the Blues might still start their season in the Winter Classic.