I love me some hockey all day long. Great to have these exhibition games played throughout the day. Love it!

BEFORE AUG 1st
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, $3.0m (2017-2020) >>> 4yr extension signed $5.5m (2019-2023)
19-20 26th C & 18-19 34th C
19-20 36th LW & 18-19 28th LW

Devan Dubnyk, $8.9m (2015-2020) >>> 5yr extension signed $10.5m (2019-2024)
19-20 51st G & 18-19 7th G

AFTER AUG 1st
Kevin Rooney, $0.6m (2018-2020) >>> 2yr extension signed $0.7m (2020-2022)
19-20 159th C & 18-19 176th C

Broadway Blueshirts offering Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, $3.0m (2017-2020). He's due a $6M contract extension starting in 2020-21.

Rangers want 2 young super specs and cash and a case of 2-4 ideally imported from the Czech Rep.

If the NHL expects to start the 2020-21 season on Dec 1st, I'm going to guess the schedule will be released by late October. If that happens we can figure out which week to re-start our 2019-20 playoffs.

Overall, this option to continue the 2019/20 playoffs in the 2020/21 NHL season should work.
If not, we can scrap it in the late Fall when the NHL figures out how and when to start next season.

Going with this option, we set up a parallel league, 2019/20 playoff team lineups can simply be Copied & Paste into the "micro-league".


* Supplemental Draft shouldn't be impacted. Can be scheduled for June.
* Free Agency won't be impacted. Should be on schedule as planned for August or scheduled later in late September or October given the 2019/20 NHL season will only wrap up in early September if it restarts in July.
* Salary cap won't suffer at all and perhaps freeze it at 81.5 to not hold up Free Agency. Just a thought.
* Entry Draft will be fine too. How about in mid-September?

Again, the entire league with all 31 teams will move forward.

All that happens for the 2019/20 playoffs to carry on is to take a snapshot of current rosters for the 8 teams and plug them into a new separate site in the Fall during the 2020/21 NHL season.

It's all do-able.