NHL Drops the Puck! Hockey’s Old Rivals and New Divisions

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The NHL is back tonight! This shortened season boasts new (corporate sponsored) divisions, including an all Canadian division, plus old and unique rivalries rekindled. After completing its 2020 season in two Canadian city bubbles, it feels like anything can happen in hockey for 2021. Can the Leafs finally advance to the playoffs? Will #1 overall pick Alexis Lafrenière spur on the Rangers? Greg Wyshynski brings us up to speed on everything we need to know to follow NHL action. Then, in honor of Nick Saban’s most recent championship win, Pablo shares a rare moment when the iconic coach opened up for the cameras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is the threshold for a number of positive cases needed to postpone a game?
0:06.4	And this may be for some of you in unsatisfying answer.
0:10.4	We're going to have to be in a position to understand and address situations as they occur.
0:19.7	Having a series of just hard and fast rules
0:22.7	in this environment, I'm pretty sure,
0:25.3	is not going to be the best approach.
0:32.2	That's National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Betman,
0:35.2	who does actually have a lot of plans in place as teams
0:39.7	take to the ice tonight. Like other sports, the NHL has systems for COVID testing and contact
0:46.1	tracing, but with seven teams in Canada, it's also got a geography issue that's going to make
0:52.8	this season uniquely fascinating,
0:56.0	all the way to the Stanley Cup.
0:59.0	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Wednesday, January 13th.
1:03.0	This is ESPN Daily.
1:10.0	Greg, I'm so happy to have you here to discuss the return of your beloved sport, not least because I know, admittedly, very little about the NHL in general.
1:19.0	I'm happy to be here, too, because there are times in the last year I wasn't sure there was going to be a hockey season.
1:25.1	Greg Wysinski has been explaining hockey to everyone who will listen for more than a
1:29.5	decade, and he's co-hosted the podcast, ESPN on ice.
1:33.4	They aren't doing the bubbles like they did last summer.
1:36.4	They're forging ahead in their own arenas.
1:38.9	There was a whole kind of labor component, too, that made things a little bit hinky and
1:43.5	edgy for a while.
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