NHL May Delay Next Season To Crown 2020 Champion

By Ty Anderson, 985TheSportsHub.com

The National Hockey League is willing to play the long game.

And even with the league’s self-quarantining period extended once again on Tuesday — this time through Apr. 30 — the league remains focused on what they do for the 2019-20 season. So much so that they’re willing to delay the 2020-21 season if it means awarding the Stanley Cup this summer.

According to hockey columnist 

A reminder that the NHL is willing to delay the start of next season until November in order to finish off this season if possible with summer hockey. NHL believes they can play a full season next year starting in November, cancel ASG/bye week, play playoffs into late June '21

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) April 13, 2020">Pierre LeBrun, that would mean pushing the start of the next season from October to November, canceling every team’s bye week and the All-Star Game, and then playing the playoffs into late June 2021. That would be a one-year tweak that would create some pain next season but essentially allow the NHL to return to normalcy for the 2021-22 season.

That desire to return to normalcy is a sentiment shared by everybody in the world right now, really, as the COVID-19 pandemic has paused our entire way of life, and with no set end date in sight.

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