Having already lost the entire exhibition season, NHL teams are now preparing to miss regular-season games.
That’s the word from CBC’s Elliotte Friedman, who reports several clubs have started planning on the assumption a cancellation announcement would happen this week.
According to Friedman, it’s expected canceled regular season games will occur in two week “blocks” -- based on that assumption, the first slate of erased games would run from Thursday, Oct. 11 (opening night) to Thursday, Oct. 25.
If the league does start cancelling regular-season games, more and more discussions will reference the work stoppage of 1994-95.
That year saw an abbreviated 48-game schedule that began on Jan. 20 and ran to May 3...after 468 games were lost to the lockout.