By Erik Pedersen Managing Editor Sharpen the skates and ice down those pucks: The NHL is coming back. Commissioner Gary Bettman said today that 24 of the league’s 31 teams will resume play — the top 12 from each conference based on points percentage when was halted on March 12 amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Phase 2 of the reopening plan — a return to club facilities for training in small groups — will begin in early June, but formal training camps won’t begin before July 1.
Phase 4 will be in-conference round-robin games, playoff qualifying rounds and the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Those dates are to be determined.
The Western and Eastern conference each will be assigned a “host city” with “secure hotels, arena, practice facility and in-market
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