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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2012, file photo, National Hockey League Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr, center, is joined by players George Parros , left, and Kevin Westgath after meeting with NHL officials in New York. The NHL is rapidly approaching the finish line of completing the season and awarding the Stanley Cup after holding an expanded playoff in quarantined bubbles. Do not expect bubbles to be an option for the 2020-21 season. Fehr said exactly replicating the playoff quarantine environment is not something players are interested in doing for an entire season. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Bubble won’t be back for full 2020-21 NHL season

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

FILE -NHL Players' Association Executive Director Donald Fehr listens during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 24, 2015. Given the uncertainty professional hockey faced in placing its season on pause in mid-March, Fehr couldn’t have envisioned a better resumption of play five months later with the first round of the playoffs getting underway. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

NHLPA’s Fehr buoyed by 0 positive tests; `So far so good’

By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, NHL Player's Association executive director Donald Fehr, left, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman attend a news conference at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Given the gravity of the pandemic and the abrupt decision to place the NHL season on pause in March, it did not take Bettman and Fehr long to realize they were going to have to work together if play was to resume any time soon. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

NHL, players take collaborative approach in bid to resume

By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 27, 2019, file photo, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to the media before Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals between the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, in Boston. The NHL is one step closer to returning. Bettman unveiled a 24-team straight to playoffs format the league will use if it can clear the other hurdles to resume its season. Under the plan approved last week by players and agreed to by the NHL, the top four teams in each conference will play for seeding while the other 16 face off in best-of-five series to determine the field to vie for the Stanley Cup .(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

NHL moves ahead with 24-team playoff format if play resumes

By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2018, file photo, National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly speaks to the media prior to the ice hockey NHL Global Series match between the Florida Panthers and the Winnipeg Jets in Helsinki, Finland. The NHL remains reluctant to reverse course and compete at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing despite new assurances from Olympic officials to lift various major stumbling blocks, which also have the backing of the league’s players. (Martti Kainulainen/Lehtikuva via AP, File)

NHL cool to Olympic participation despite IIHF assurances

By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

FILE - At left, in a 2015 file photo, is NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr. At right, in a 2018 file photo, is NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. No news getting out seems to be good news as the NHL and NHL Players’ Association discuss a potential extension of the collective bargaining agreement. With the players’ Sept. 15 deadline to decide whether to reopen the CBA fast-approaching, dialogue between the two sides continues to be cordial, professional and constructive _ a drastic change from previous labor talks in a sport that has become known for periodic work stoppages. (AP Photo/File)

Quiet nature of NHL labor talks breeds cautious optimism

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, NHL Players' Association Executive Director Donald Fehr listens during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio. The NHL Players' Association executive board and others meet Wednesday evening, Sept. 4, 2019, in Chicago, in advance of a Sept. 15 deadline to decide whether to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

NHLPA executive board meets, still deliberating on CBA

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, right, and NHL Player's Association Executive Director Donald Fehr take part in announcing the return of the World Cup of Hockey in 2016 in Toronto, during a news conference at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. With labor talks having already begun on an informal basis, NHL Commissioner Bettman and union chief Fehr are in agreement in their desire to reboot the World Cup of Hockey tournament. The stumbling block to laying out a long-term calendar of international competition, however, revolves around the hot-button topic of the NHL returning to participate in the Winter Olympics after skipping out on South Korea in 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Rebooting World Cup of Hockey to be part of NHL labor talks

By JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2016, file photo, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, left, and Executive Director of the NHLPA Donald Fehr speak to the media during a press conference about the World Cup of Hockey 2016. In two years, the NHL or NHL Players' Association could opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement that would end it in September in 2020. Executives on each side say it's too early to know what issues will be in the next round of talks, but escrow and the Olympics are two of the hotter topics (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian press via AP, File)

Olympics could be hot topic in next round of NHL CBA talks

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, left, and Wayne Gretzky speak to the media before the Toronto Maple Leafs played the Detroit Red Wings during the NHL Centennial Classic in Toronto on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Bettman still down on Olympics; NHLPA ‘more optimistic’

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NHL Players' Association Executive Director Don Fehr, left, International Ice Hockey Federation President Rene Fasel, center, and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, right, answer questions at a news conference at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NHL won’t discuss 2018 Winter Games while in Sochi

By LARRY LAGE - Associated Press

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman answers questions about hockey issues at a news conference at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Commissioner Gary Bettman says NHL participation in 2018 won’t be discussed in Sochi

By Larry Lage - Associated Press

FILE - This April 21, 2011 file photo shows baseball players union head Michael Weiner speaking at a news conference in New York. Weiner, the plain-speaking, ever-positive labor lawyer who took over as head of the powerful baseball players' union four years ago and smoothed the group's perennially contentious relationship with management, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, 15 months after announcing he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He was 51. A memorial for Weiner was held Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Weiner remembered with stories and Springsteen

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Union head Weiner’s funeral draws Selig, A-Rod

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Weiner health declines; Clark in line to be deputy

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press