Following reports last week that the National Hockey League intends on using four centralized NHL sites, including the Vegas Golden Knights’ T-Mobile Arena, to finish the 2019-20 season, another interesting proposal has emerged.
According to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic, the NHL are now exploring the possibility of starting the 2020-21 regular season in December.
Per LeBrun, there are two main reasons for this idea including the fact that finishing the 2019-20 regular season and then crowning a Stanley Cup Champion this year could stretch into September, and maybe even October.
If that proved to be the case then the league would need some kind of off-season, while another driving factor behind beginning 2020-21 in December is the fact that the league feels they can’t start a new NHL season without fans in buildings.