For this Season, We decided not to do the Monthly OT's we usually do and just stick with one OT since it's a shortened season.
Due to the Global Pandemic effecting the entire world, the NHL had to Remake all the Divisions. With that, all 7 Canadian teams will play each other.
Each team will play a 56-game schedule and face teams only in its division during the regular season, which will begin Jan. 13, 2021. The top four teams in each division will qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, when each round will be best-of-7.
The first two rounds of the playoffs will be interdivisional, with the first-place team playing the fourth-place team and the second-place team facing the third-place team in the first round. The four teams that advance from the second round to the Semifinal Round will be seeded by their points total in the regular season (No. 1 vs. No. 4; No. 2 vs. No. 3).
- Dec. 28, 2020: Waiver period begins.
- Dec. 31: Training camps for the seven teams that did not participate in the Qualifying Round.
- Jan. 3, 2021: Training camps begin for remaining 24 NHL teams.
- Jan. 13: Tentative start date for 2020-21 NHL regular season.
- Feb. 1: Teams can ask players to waive no-movement clauses re: the 2021 Expansion Draft.
- April 12: Expected date for the 2021 NHL Trade Deadline, according to TSN's Bob McKenzie, Darren Dreger, and others.
- May 8: End of 2020-21 NHL season.
- May 11: Beginning of 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
- July 15: Likely last day the 2021 Stanley Cup can be awarded. LeBrun estimates that it may be awarded closer to July 10, at least if this timeline holds.
- July 17: Deadline for NHL teams to submit expansion draft protection lists to the Seattle Kraken, TSN's Frank Seravalli reports.
- July 21: 2021 NHL Expansion Draft for the Seattle Kraken.
- July 23-24: 2021 NHL Draft slated to take place.
- July 28: 2021 NHL Free Agency
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