Normally on July 1st, we’d be breaking down all of the free agent transactions from across the leagues. We’d be debating the best and worst deals, re-calibrating our expectations for the next season as rosters were shaken up. This is, of course, no normal year. Instead, July 1st brought with it some news about the NHL potentially resuming its season in late July — which is a sentence I hope to never have to write again.
- There have been several reports in recent days that the NHL and the NHLPA were closing in on a deal to resume the 2019-20 season.