Canada is one of the countries that has been most severe throughout the American continent in its measures to stop the expansion of the coronavirus and its good figures compared to its southern ‘neighbors’ indicate that it has been successful.
Jan 08, 2021 at 08:40
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In the NBA, the impossibility of crossing borders for Canadian franchises has had an easy solution, since the Toronto Raptors have settled in the Amalia Arena in Tampa (Florida), which they will share with the Tampa Bay Lightning, champions of the reduced NHL 2019-20.
Waiting for the situation to clear up, the team that leads Nick Nurse has had to establish his ‘bubble’ on the peninsula in a climate that has nothing to do with Toronto’s.
The Grizzlies played their first six seasons in Vancouver, but in 2001 they moved to their current location in Memphis, so the basketball problem is solved.
A Canadian Division
However, the impact on the National Ice Hockey League (NHL) is much older with seven Canadian franchises: Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, Winnipeg Jets, Ottawa Senators, Calgary Flames y Edmonton Oilers.
In fact, Canada is the great historical power of ice hockey and accumulates world Olympic golds and a good part of the great universal stars of this extraordinary and exciting sport that so few followers have in Spain.
After many discussions, finally the 2020-21 NHL Regular League will take place next Wednesday and finally the seven referred teams have been framed in the same Division (the North) and they will play the regular phase facing each other nine or ten times (the calendar is not closed).
The rest
The other divisions will have eight clubs, which will play each other seven times.: Central (Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Florida Panthers, Nashville Predators y Tampa Bay), Este (Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Washington Capitals y Pittsburgh Penguins) y Oeste (San Jose Sharks, Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, Arizona Coyotes, St. Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild y Vegas Golden Knights.
This will also imply that fewer matches are played, as happened last season due to the ‘stoppage’ due to Covid-19, which will mean a new obstacle for russian Aleksandr Ovechkin in his impossible race to the goal record of the mythical Wayne Gretzky (It is the eighth in history with 708 by the Canadian’s 894).
