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Originally Posted by ComixZone
They were originally told to be ready for it because there was original talks of December 1st.
I imagine, with the league (possibly) announcing a January 1st start-up in the next week or so, that players will be asked to report in early December.
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The NBA is starting December 22 and they have had even less of an off season, so I suppose there is still a chance. They just negotiated a rather major change to their salary cap calculations and there has been no player movement yet at all. Of course the NBA has more TV money at stake and so more motivated to start playing.
It seems increasingly likely the NHL season will start without fans and will be a shortened season. I have to believe the league and players are discussing some mechanism to reduce player costs beyond the 20% escrow. If HRR is down 50% or more, the owners (and indirectly future players) would be fronting the current players more $'s than would be logical IMO.