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Jul 15, 2020
NHL players will be back for the next Olympic tournament! Here's our early look at who makes the cut for Beijing 2022.
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Jul 14, 2020
Right wing Troy Terry has agreed to a three-year, $4.35 million contract extension through the 2022-23 season with the Anaheim Ducks, the team announced Tuesday.
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Jul 14, 2020
Blackhawks defenseman Calvin de Haan missed practice Tuesday because of a family emergency. Coach Jeremy Colliton said he isn't sure when de Haan will be back.
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Jul 14, 2020
Right wing Troy Terry has agreed to a three-year contract extension through the 2022-23 season with the Anaheim Ducks, the team announced Tuesday.
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Jul 14, 2020
Capitals forward Lars Eller said he will leave the bubble in Toronto for the birth of his child.
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Jul 14, 2020
Leon Draisaitl, Nathan MacKinnon and Artemi Panarin are finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award.
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Jul 14, 2020
When should you draft Dougie Hamilton? Are Alex Ovechkin's great years behind him? We break down what you need to know after this fantasy hockey season.
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Jul 14, 2020
We check in with the executive director on the return to play, negotiating a CBA during a global pandemic and much more.
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Jul 14, 2020
The Blackhawks prospect debuted on the final day before the coronavirus pause. As training camp gets rolling ahead of the postseason, he has a unique perspective on the return.
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Jul 14, 2020
For weeks, one sporting event after another was canceled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is when we can expect a return to action.
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Jul 13, 2020
Kirill Kaprizov, Alexander Romanov and Ilya Sorokin, three of the best NHL prospects playing in Russia's KHL, signed deals with their respective NHL clubs Monday, during a unique, league-imposed negotiating window.
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Jul 13, 2020
As Chicago prepares for the season restart, and a qualifying series vs. Edmonton, the Blackhawks were without goaltender Corey Crawford, 35, on Monday as practice ramped back up.
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Jul 13, 2020
The Penguins announced they are "voluntarily sidelining" nine players from their training camp roster after potential secondary exposure to an individual who tested positive for COVID-19.
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Jul 13, 2020
The Wild removed the interim tag for coach Dean Evason and gave him a contract extension through the 2021-22 season, the team announced Monday.
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Jul 13, 2020
As training camps open, we have new intel on the postseason schedule, procedures for positive tests and the food situation in the bubbles.
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Jul 13, 2020
The NHL will be back on the ice Aug. 1. Before that happens, get up to speed on all 24 postseason teams with our handy preview.
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Jul 12, 2020
NHL teams asked season-ticket holders to submit 30-second videos of cheering on their players that will be used during games.
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Jul 11, 2020
Edmonton's Mike Green, Boston's Steven Kampfer, Vancouver's Sven Baertschi, Dallas' Roman Polak and Montreal's Karl Alzner on Saturday joined the list of players who won't be reporting to training camp for the resumption of the NHL season.
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Jul 11, 2020
Stars defenseman Roman Polak and Canucks forward Sven Baertschi have decided to opt out of the NHL's return-to-play program.
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Jul 11, 2020
The NHL announced on Saturday that it has prohibited teams from releasing coronavirus test results and injury information during its season restart this summer.
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Jul 11, 2020
Stars defenseman Roman Polak and Canucks forward Sven Baertschi have decided to opt out of the NHL's return-to-play program.
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Jul 11, 2020
Lightning captain Steven Stamkos suffered a lower-body injury after recovering from core muscle surgery. He will be limited for training camp but is expected to be ready for the start of the 24-team playoff in August.
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Jul 11, 2020
Calgary Flames defenseman Travis Hamonic informed the team Friday night that he was opting out of the NHL's summer restart. Hamonic, an unrestricted free agent after the season, has played in 50 of the team's 70 games this season.
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Jul 10, 2020
The NHLPA and the NHL board of governors announced Friday night that they have approved a package that not only will allow the league to restart this summer but also includes a four-year CBA extension.
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Jul 10, 2020
The NHL has achieved extended labor peace! Here are the key points from the new pact.
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Jul 10, 2020
Jim Lites, who is in his third stint with the Stars, will be the team's new chairman and will serve as an advisor and provide counsel to team president Brad Alberts.
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Jul 09, 2020
The New Jersey Devils are hiring veteran coach Lindy Ruff to take over one of the NHL's youngest teams and removing the interim tag off Tom Fitzgerald's title as general manager, according to reports.
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Jul 09, 2020
The widow of Colby Cave shares her story from this year, and how she's working to complete the couple's vision for helping others.
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Jul 09, 2020
How will the food compare to the NBA's? Where are the field trips going to be? Whither intra-team Mario Kart?
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Jul 09, 2020
The widow of Colby Cave shares her story from this year, and how she's working to complete the couple's vision for helping others.
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Jul 08, 2020
The start of the 2020-21 NHL season is targeted as Dec. 1 in a memorandum of understanding being voted on by NHL players, The league's board of governors also must approve it.
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Jul 08, 2020
The Buffalo Sabres, who had sued the federal government by alleging officials wrongly denied the team's visa petition for British-born assistant coach Ed Gannon, dropped the lawsuit after his green card was approved.
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Jul 08, 2020
Oliver Ekman-Larsson had knee surgery last summer, fully expecting it to help him have a healthy 2019-20 season.
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Jul 08, 2020
Several teams face a major question as to who starts Game 1. We examine each club's choices and make our picks.
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Jul 08, 2020
The NHL Players' Association announced Tuesday night that its executive committee (one player rep from each of the 31 teams) has approved the tentative collective bargaining agreement and return-to-play plan to restart the 2019-20 season.
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Jul 07, 2020
The Chicago Blackhawks say they will continue to use their team name because it honors "an important and historic person, Black Hawk of Illinois' Sac & Fox Nation."
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Jul 07, 2020
International Ice Hockey Federation chief Rene' Fasel is encouraged after learning the NHL's pending labor deal opens the possibility of the world's best players returning to the Olympics for the 2022 Beijing Games.
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Jul 07, 2020
From stars returning from injury to lineup questions that will have an outsized impact, here's what we'll be watching.
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Jul 06, 2020
The National Hockey League and NHL Players' Association have reached a tentative agreement to return to play this season and extend their collective bargaining agreement.
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Jul 06, 2020
The NHL, which says it has administered 2,900 COVID-19 tests since June 8, announced that 35 players tested positive in that span.
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Jul 06, 2020
The NHL and NHLPA provided a major update this weekend. Plus, what we know about the forthcoming CBA extension.
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Jul 05, 2020
The NHL and NHLPA have finalized the protocols for the season to resume. The protocols and a CBA extension now will go to a player vote for final approval.
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Jul 05, 2020
The NHL and NHLPA have finalized the protocols for the season to resume. The protocols and a CBA extension will now go to a player vote for final approval.
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Jul 04, 2020
Multiple members of the St. Louis Blues have tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple reports Friday night. Neither The Athletic nor the St. Louis Post-Dispatch specified how many players tested positive.
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Jul 03, 2020
Seven ice hockey players have been suspended during an investigation into match-fixing in the Belarus league.
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Jul 02, 2020
Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom has completed radiation treatments for a rare form of bone cancer.
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Jul 02, 2020
Where does the No. 1 NHL draft prospect fit in best? Who needs him the most? And which potential destinations aren't likely to go over well with hockey fans?
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Jul 01, 2020
Admitting that he's "had a tough year," Arizona forward Phil Kessel and the recharged Coyotes are looking forward to the league's restart.
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Jul 01, 2020
Carolina executive Rick Dudley won't return and longtime TV play-by-play announcer John Forslund is still in talks with the team on a new deal.
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Jul 01, 2020
The NHL has shifted its focus to selecting two Canadian hub cities, which would have the league resuming its season in Toronto and Edmonton later this summer, sources confirmed to ESPN.
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Jul 01, 2020
Matt Dumba shares how the newly formed Hockey Diversity Alliance got its start, what it sets out to do and what happens next.
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Jul 01, 2020
NHL players who are due signing bonuses on July 1 are expected to receive them as scheduled, a source confirmed to ESPN. More than $300 million is due to be paid to players on Wednesday after the NHL and NHLPA agreed the bonuses wouldn't be deferred.
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Jun 30, 2020
Mogilny, snubbed again in 2020, deserves to be in the Hall. We make the case for him and 10 others, remember the 1995 Stanley Cup, name winners and losers of the week and more.
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Jun 30, 2020
Season five of 'Queer Eye' hits Philadelphia, the Fab Five of course had to give one of the city's biggest stars a makeover.
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Jun 30, 2020
With the first part of the NHL draft lottery complete, Chris Peters updates his top 100 prospects in the 2020 class.
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Jun 29, 2020
The Red Wings plan to hold their training camp for the 2020-21 NHL season at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jun 29, 2020
The NHL announced that 15 players of 250 who have returned to voluntary workouts have tested positive for coronavirus.
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Jun 29, 2020
On-ice workouts are up to 12 players at a time, and hub city potentials are down to five. But it was an up-and-down week for the NHL's return-to-play plans. We break it down.
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Jun 29, 2020
The first part of the NHL draft lottery is complete. We mocked the first eight picks, then looked at potential options for the remaining teams based on where they might be drafting.
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Jun 26, 2020
The NHL and its players are close to reaching a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement, sources told ESPN.
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Jun 26, 2020
A team that loses in the NHL's qualifying round ahead of this year's playoffs won the draft lottery Friday night.
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Jun 26, 2020
The No. 1 draft slot falls to a second lottery drawing, while the 17-win Red Wings settle for the fourth pick. We look at the highs and lows of the NHL draft lottery results.
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Jun 26, 2020
The NHL and its players close to reaching a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement and return-to-play protocols that would restart the 2019-20 season, sources told ESPN.
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Jun 26, 2020
Instead of quarantining players during training camps, scheduled to open July 10, the NHL is instructing players to stay home when not at the rink.
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Jun 26, 2020
The 2020 draft lottery will retain some aspects of previous editions, with important updates to account for the unprecedented nature of this season.
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Jun 25, 2020
The Vancouver Canucks announced that their city will not be a 12-team "hub" if the NHL restarts its season this summer, despite speculation it had been one of the front-runners.
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Jun 25, 2020
Rangers star Artemi Panarin became the most prominent player to speak out against returning to training camp without a fix to the league's escrow system, saying players "are all in this together."
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Jun 25, 2020
Florida captain Aleksander Barkov became the third-largest investor in the Tappara club of his hometown of Tampere, Finland, with whom he began his hockey life as a 4-year-old.
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Jun 25, 2020
Amazon has a naming rights deal with Seattle's new arena, but it will instead use the deal to help combat climate change.
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Jun 25, 2020
Mogilny, snubbed again in 2020, deserves to be in the Hall. We make the case for him and 10 others, remember the 1995 Stanley Cup, name winners and losers of the week and more.
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Jun 25, 2020
We go around the league to bring you all the insights and takeaways from each team this season.
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Jun 24, 2020
Jarome Iginla headlines the Hockey Hall of Fame's class of 2020 after being elected Wednesday in his first year of eligibility.
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Jun 24, 2020
The Lightning reopened their training facility, five days after shutting down because of positive coronavirus tests.
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Jun 24, 2020
New Coyotes president Xavier Gutierrez says the yearslong issue of finding the team a long-term venue in Arizona remains the front office's leading priority. It's .
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Jun 24, 2020
Using the proprietary four quadrant system, we determine which current players, alumni, coaches and execs are destined to be enshrined.
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Jun 24, 2020
Remember the hype around Connor McDavid? Or Carey Price? What about Eric Lindros back in the early '90s? Here are all 31 teams' most-hyped prospects dating to 1990.
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Jun 23, 2020
Oskar Lindblom skated with the Flyers as he makes his way back from cancer treatments.
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Jun 23, 2020
The NHL has narrowed its list of possible hubs for the resumption of the season to six cities.
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Jun 22, 2020
The Stars have fired Alex Kleuser, a visual effects designer for the team, after they were alerted to a racist comment he made on social media.
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Jun 22, 2020
Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko skated with the team for the first time since his injury and is looking at a return this summer.
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Jun 22, 2020
The NHL has narrowed its list of possible hub cities, with Columbus knocked out.
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Jun 22, 2020
Forward Chris Thorburn announced his retirement Monday after playing more than 800 NHL games for four different organizations. His last time on the ice came while hoisting the Stanley Cup as a member of the Blues.
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Jun 22, 2020
There were some speed bumps this past week, with reports of numerous positive player tests. Plus, the latest on which cities will host the return to play.
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Jun 20, 2020
Devils center Nico Hischier is using the team's extended offseason to fulfill his military obligation to his native Switzerland.
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Jun 20, 2020
A hobbyist collector from San Diego ended up with a rare Connor McDavid rookie card that sold for a final bid of $135,811 on Friday in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction.
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Jun 20, 2020
A hobbyist collector from San Diego ended up with a rare Connor McDavid rookie card that sold for a final bid of $113,176 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday.
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Jun 20, 2020
A hobbyist collector from San Diego ended up with a rare Connor McDavid rookie card that sold for a final bid of $113,176 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday.
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Jun 20, 2020
Eleven NHL players, who weren't named, have tested positive for COVID-19 out of 200 players tested since training facilities were allowed to open on June 8, the NHL announced late Friday night.
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Jun 19, 2020
The Lightning have temporarily closed their training facility after an outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Jun 19, 2020
The Lightning have temporarily closed their training facility after an outbreak of coronavirus, a source told ESPN.
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Jun 19, 2020
Canada has approved a National Hockey League plan to play in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday.
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Jun 18, 2020
Former NHL player Daniel Carcillo is a lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey league, alleging he and other teenage players were routinely victims to sexual harassment, and sexual assault."
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Jun 18, 2020
The NHL has assured its coaches that when hockey returns this summer, there will be no restrictions prohibiting them from doing their jobs, nor will any coaches of a certain age or another at-risk demographic be prevented from being behind the bench.
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Jun 18, 2020
Xavier Gutierrez, the first Latino president and CEO of an NHL franchise, is eager to make an impact on the ice and in Arizona's communities.
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Jun 18, 2020
Who are the Buffalo Sabres? It's tough to know what the plan is, after a large swath of the organization was unceremoniously fired this week.
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Jun 17, 2020
How bad were the Battle Creek Rumble Bees of the Federal Prospects Hockey League? They went 1-45-2 and were outscored 304-94. No, really.
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Jun 17, 2020
As the pause continues, we check in with Tampa Bay's bench boss on his strategy for training camp and the postseason, and his thoughts on the hub city plan.
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Jun 17, 2020
NHL players won't be expected to wear full face shields if games resume this summer, though there could be plenty of covered faces around them.
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Jun 16, 2020
Tod Leiweke, president for Seattle's NHL expansion team, said Tuesday there have been a few issues related to COVID-19 that has led to the timeline being adjusted for the new arena, but that shouldn't interfere with the team's first season in 2021-22.
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Jun 16, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian government is open to the NHL operating a playoff hub city in Canada as long as it is allowed by local health authorities.
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