419: NHL Closer to a New Season; First COVID Vaccines are Given; Penguins in Legal Trouble

The U.K. rolled out the first coronavirus vaccines to the public on Tuesday, making it the first country to inoculate people with a treatment that went through full testing. New details on the NHL’s return to play. Owners will not seek to change anything about the collective bargaining agreement they struck back in July. Both sides targeting Jan. 13 start to season in order to get 56-game schedule. There is till some work to be done on protocols, schedule, plus subject to NHL BOG and NHLPA executive board approval, not to mention approval from public health officials. Team Canada has been cleared by Alberta Health Services to resume its World Junior Hockey Championship selection camp in Red Deer. Canada was forced to quarantine for 14 days after two players tested positive for COVID-19. Forwards Ridly Greig and Xavier Simoneau, along with defensemen Matthew Robertson, Daemon Hunt, and Matthew Millman, have been sent home after being deemed unfit to play, Hockey Canada's Scott Salmond announced. Greig, a 2020 first-round pick by the Ottawa Senators, is the most notable player heading home. Team Canada is expected to name its 25-man roster by Friday at the latest. According to TSN’s Rick Westhead, the Pittsburgh Penguins are being accused of encouraging a former assistant coach with their minor league affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to “keep quiet” after another former assistant allegedly sexually assaulted his wife in a car on a team road trip.