It appears that Canadians will receive a two-part gift on their country’s national holiday.
TSN’s Bob McKenzie reported on the morning of Canada Day that the NHL, barring any unforeseen setbacks, will announce that Toronto and Edmonton will be named as the league’s hub cities, splitting host duties for the resumption of play this summer.
For its infrastructure and amenities, Las Vegas was believed to be the distant front-runner for weeks throughout the vetting process for host locations, but it seems as though the rise in cases in the region — and across the Unites States as a whole — has spooked the league enough to move all teams, players and staff over the border for the mid-summer restart.