{"id":10724,"date":"2020-05-26T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2020-05-26T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T09:07:38","slug":"nhl-players-association-board-consents-to-24-team-format-for-season-resumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/nhl-players-association-board-consents-to-24-team-format-for-season-resumption\/","title":{"rendered":"NHLPA Board Consents to 24-Team Format for Season Resumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/national-hockey-league-players-association.jpg\" alt=\"National Hockey League Players&#039; Association\" title=\"NHLPA Board Consents to 24-Team Format for Season Resumption\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10725\" \/>The <strong>National Hockey League<\/strong> (NHL) is set to return after the <a href=\"https:\/\/nhlpa.com\">league\u2019s Players Association<\/a> (PA) approved its proposal to hold a 24-team playoff format which will be comprised of a 16-team playoffs among the top four conference teams and an eight-team play-in tournament series. <\/p>\n<p>No regular season games will be held; the 24 teams will directly vie for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/hockey\/nhl\">2020 Stanley Cup<\/a>. The remaining seven NHL teams will be left out.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Board of the PA approved the league\u2019s proposal overwhelmingly, <em>29-2<\/em>. Sources reported that only the player representatives from Tampa Bay and Carolina voted against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of an official announcement from the NHL, there no longer appears to be any organizational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/president-donald-trump-pushes-major-sports-leagues-to-restart-in-august\/\">hurdles for the resumption of the 2020 season<\/a> with the 24-team format. What remains are external obstacles related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESPN First Take<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2Yagjuam_M?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the issue of travel, immigration, and visas, the acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, <strong>Chad Wolf<\/strong>, has already signed a decree permitting all professional athletes to enter the US. <\/p>\n<p>However, what remains to be seen is how the NHL and its PA agree on a hub city where all its members will have to remain in until the season is concluded.<\/p>\n<h2>League Protocols on COVID-19 Related Issues Still Undefined<\/h2>\n<p>The NHL has also not released any information on their plans should someone contract COVID-19.  Currently, the league has kept mum on its quarantine and testing protocols, as well as how such an event would impact play in the field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/ice-hockey\">Ice Hockey<\/a> is a very physical sport, and its players come into close contact several times per game. The PA would be justified in seeking a definite plan from the NHL on what it can enact to limit the exposure to the coronavirus before any commitment to the resumption. <\/p>\n<p>Others are also concerned about the lack of practice for many of the players. Working out on-ice is indispensable for hockey workouts; skills gained from working out off-ice do not always translate fully to the ice on game day.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting impact could turn off fans from viewing, and potentially increase injury risks to players. This could have a massive effect on free agency, already tumultuous due to the salary cap being tied to revenues, which have plummeted due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, all that has been agreed on is the format. Whether the NHL and the PA can agree on the remaining matters is an open question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League (NHL) is set to return after the league\u2019s Players Association (PA) approved its proposal to hold a 24-team playoff format which will be comprised of a 16-team playoffs among the top four conference teams and an eight-team play-in tournament series. No regular season games will be held; the 24 teams will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NHLPA Board Consents to 24-Team Format for Season Resumption<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The NHL is set to return after the league\u2019s Players Association approved its proposal to hold a 24-team playoff format\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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