Labour peace now. Hockey soon.
After months of plotting, the NHL has cleared the final hurdle in its efforts to restart to the 2019-20 season amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, having received a majority vote from the NHLPA membership on the Return to Play plan, along with the framework on a four-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
NHLPA members have spent the last few days submitting votes for and against the proposal, which was tentatively agreed upon at the beginning this week. With both the immediate and long-term plans — which in this case were inextricably linked — now agreed on, teams and players will move forward with the plan to begin training camps at the beginning of next week before eventually transitioning to hub cities in Toronto and Edmonton to resume the 2019-20 season in secure zones on August 1.