Two back to back posts on Game Time in November illustrate the see-saw negotiations to the start of the 2021 NHL season. With a tentative start date of January 1st, the league needs to focus on getting training camps started some time in December, especially for the teams that were not eligible to participate in the post-season. Back on November 18th, I wrote that the start of the new season was starting to take shape.
Three days later, what was the headline?
It hasn’t gotten any better since then. Yesterday, Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star speculated on the state of the talks, and none of that speculation was of the positive variety.