TORONTO \u2014 The NHL remains alarmed about the state of construction for Milan\u2019s Olympic hockey arena, so much so that the league is sending over its own people to inspect the arena next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt continues to be concerning,\u201d NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said after the NHL general managers meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Derek King and Dean Matsuzaki from the NHL will be in Milan next week to check things out, Daly said.<\/p>\n
The Olympics are just 90 days away, and while the NHL is getting weekly updates on arena construction, Daly said it needs to see the progress firsthand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully we\u2019ll have a much better sense of it next week,\u201d Daly said.<\/p>\n
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman previously sounded the alarm<\/a> after the Board of Governors meeting in New York on Oct. 15, after the Associated Press reported<\/a> that the first test event for the arena, set for December, had been canceled.<\/p>\n The International Olympic Committee told The Athletic the following day that the arena is \u201cscheduled for completion mid-December\u201d and that a new event had been scheduled for early January, roughly a month before Olympic competition is set to begin at the arena on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n In other news from Tuesday\u2019s NHL GMs meeting:<\/p>\n \u2022 Jared Maples, senior executive VP and chief security officer for the NHL, spoke to GMs in the meeting in the wake of the NBA and MLB gambling scandals. Daly said the message was consistent with what \u201cwe have been emphasizing with the clubs regularly.\u201d Maples reminded GMs about the need to be careful about injury information and careful with the rules. The NHL felt it was a timely update, given what\u2019s happened in other leagues.<\/p>\n \u2022 The NHL is still working with the individual Olympic countries\u2019 federations and the NHL Players\u2019 Association on reveal dates for rosters. The deadline is Dec. 31 for each country to submit full rosters, but the days that each country will announce those rosters are still being formalized.<\/p>\n \u201cI think what you\u2019ll see is the U.S. and Canada will reveal around New Year\u2019s and the rest of the countries will reveal after the World Juniors are over,\u201d Daly said.<\/p>\n The tentative plan is to announce around Jan. 1 for the U.S. and Canada, and around Jan. 6, the day after World Juniors conclude, for other countries.<\/p>\n \u2022 The NHL is going to a reduced preseason next year as part of the new CBA, with four games maximum per team. Daly said the league talked to GMs on Tuesday about the roster requirements for those games.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only restriction we negotiated with the (NHLPA) was 100-game players can\u2019t play more than two (preseason) games,\u201d Daly said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve tasked Doug Armstrong and his executive GM group to talk through the issue and make a proposal to us with what they want enforced on player lineups for exhibition games.\u201d<\/p>\n The aim, Daly said, is to produce more NHL-like lineups in preseason games than the league has typically had in recent years.<\/p>\n \u2022 Daly said they ran out of time and didn\u2019t get to one item on the agenda: the playoff salary cap and the day-to-day logistics of how it\u2019s going to work, especially on gamedays.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really just the mechanics of submitting the list (of players) that\u2019s got to be approved for each game, like in terms of timing and sequencing and all those logistical issues which are important,\u201d Daly said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to try to make it mirror the current situation as much as we can so that there\u2019s no unintended consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n As per the new CBA, gameday lineups in the playoffs will have to be submitted by 3 p.m. local time. But what\u2019s still being discussed is allowances for legitimate injuries that pop up or illnesses closer to gametime. 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