That news might have meant for if it wasn’t for this other piece of information reported on Wednesday night...
- According to Vancouver sports journalist Rob Fai, the NHL has officially approved Las Vegas as one of the NHL’s hub cities.
If that’s the case, it might eliminate Vancouver’s bid to be a hub city. However, most of the teams to put in bids were Western Conference teams (Edmonton, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, St. Paul, Vancouver and Las Vegas) whereas only Toronto, Pittsburgh have put in official bids at this time.
Here’s another snippet from The Province’s Ben Kuzma from above, talking about the COVID-19 situation in Vegas right now.