Trudeau: Government open to NHL hub city in Canada. MORE:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that the federal government is "comfortable" with the National Hockey League having a hub city in Canada, as long as local health authorities approve.
Trudeau's comments come after he announced that Canada and the United States had agreed to extend the current border restrictions on non-essential travel through July 21. LeBrun notes that the Canadian federal government’s impending decision on quarantine likely looms large on the NHL’s cut down process. Currently, federal law mandates that anyone entering Canada would be subject to a 14-day quarantine, making it difficult to see the Canadian locales currently in the running – Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver – as viable NHL hub city options and for Canadian teams holding their training camps north of the border.
On May 26, the league announced its intention to resume the 2019-20 season with 24 teams centralized in two hub cities that have yet to be determined. The NHL and NHLPA announced Thursday they are targeting July 10 as the start of Phase 3 should it be deemed safe.
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