Here’s what it will take for the NHL to say Game On Globe_Sports
The ice surface and bowl of the Canadian Tire Centre where the Ottawa Senators play is seen in this file photo from Sept. 7, 2017 in Ottawa.On Thursday night, the NHL Players’ Association began polling its executive board on a single issue: an expanded playoff set-up in which 24 teams would battle for the Stanley Cup, if and when the league determines it is safe to restart games.
Las Vegas, Edmonton, and Toronto are among the most frequently mentioned cities. The Western conference games would be staged in one city, the Eastern conference games in the other.Vegas seems a shoo-in. It has vast blocks of empty hotels, a mayor who last month seemed to offer up her city as a control group in a life-and-death experiment, a desperately idled workforce , and a shiny new NHL-grade practice facility a short drive from downtown.
Toronto is an attractive centre, with plenty of hotels within walking distance of Scotiabank Arena and a practice facility boasting four ice pads. The city, which has had the dubious distinction of adding more than 100 COVID-19 cases each day for months now, may not have done as much lobbying, but maybe it doesn’t need to: It’s Toronto.
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