The following rule changes were proposed Jand approved the next day: Ron Francis was hired as Seattle's first general manager on July 17, 2019. The expansion team, set to begin play during the 2021–22 season, originally planned to announce the club's name in early 2020. Seattle expansion team ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the christening of the Seattle Kraken was delayed to July 23, 2020. The salary cap is $81.5 million, as announced on June 22, 2019. The NHL announced on August 30 that they would not opt out, and the NHLPA then also agreed on September 16 not to opt out. If either of them had opted out, the CBA would have expired at the end of this season instead of at the end of 2021–22. Before the season started, both the NHL and the NHLPA had the choice to opt out of the CBA on September 1 and September 16, 2019, respectively. The collective bargaining agreement (CBA), previously signed to end the 2012–13 NHL lockout, entered into its eighth season. League business Collective bargaining agreement The playoffs began on August 1, 2020, and ended on September 28, with the Tampa Bay Lightning defeating the Dallas Stars in the Stanley Cup Finals in six games, winning their second Stanley Cup in franchise history. On May 22, 2020, the NHL and National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) agreed to a framework for the resumption of play, which would see the remainder of the regular season scrapped, and the top 12 teams in each conference (by points percentage) competing in a modified and expanded Stanley Cup playoffs, which the NHL planned to hold in two centralized "hub cities", Toronto's Scotiabank Arena and Edmonton's Rogers Place, with no spectators and only essential staff present. The season was suspended indefinitely on March 12, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The regular season began on October 2, 2019, with playoffs originally planned for April and the Stanley Cup Finals planned for June.
The 2019–20 NHL season was the 103rd season of operation (102nd season of play) of the National Hockey League.
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