NHL and Players’ Association tentatively agree on 2020 return to play plan, CBA extension
The NHL and its players’ union have reached a tentative agreement on a return to play plan and a memorandum of understanding for a…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: Return To Play Negotiations
Avalanche Talk returns with a Fourth of July episode looking at all the topics of negotiation between the NHL and NHLPA regarding…
Weighing the pros and cons for each team’s return
Leaving out the obvious problem of people getting sick, here is the good and bad of sports returning to our lives (hopefully) in…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: Draft Lottery and Hall of Fame Reactions
JJ Jerez and Aarif deen connect the day after the NHL Draft lottery for a quick reaction on the drama that ensued. The discussion…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: Safe in the bubble
After a handful of players recently tested positive for COVID-19, Avalanche Talk takes a look at the rest of Phase 2 in the NHL’s…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: Phase 2 & Landeskog’s Zoom
Aarif Deen and JJ Jerez begin this week’s episode of Avalanche Talk with a look at the opening of Phase 2 of the NHL’s return to…
NHL announces formal training camps will begin July 10
Exactly three months from the last 2019-20 NHL game, the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have announced that Phase 3 of its…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: Hockey IS for everyone
In lieu of recent events in society, this week’s episode of Avalanche Talk opens with a discussion on how those events have…
NHL announces more details for tentative playoff format; date for Phase 2
The NHL has announced more details on the tentative Return to Play Plan that will resume the 2019-20 season this summer. The…
Getting excited for the return of the NHL with a few futures bets
It’s a glacial pace, but that sound you hear is American sports slowly coming to life and setting its rusty wheels in motion.
Avalanche Talk Podcast: A Step In The Right Direction
After the NHL announced its initial return to play plans, hosts JJ Jerez and Aarif Deen give their reactions on how it will all…
NHL announces initial plans of 24-team return to play format
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman officially announced details of the leagues 24-team return to play playoff format on Tuesday — the…
NHLPA expected to approve 24-team return to play format, TSN’s Bob McKenzie says
Word came out late Thursday that the NHL had proposed a 24-team return to play format to the NHL Players’ Association. The…
Avalanche Talk Podcast: When will it end?
Avalanche Talk pokes its head out during quarantine and the hockey hiatus to breakdown the latest news regarding the NHL’s…
Why a 24-team playoff is the NHL’s best option in resuming the season
The latest talks around the resumption of the 2019-20 NHL season, reported last week by Sportnet’s Elliotte Friedman and others,…