Overview

• Daly told reporters at the NHL/NHLPA player media tour in Las Vegas that a decision is expected "in the relatively near future."
• Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote were acquitted on July 24 in London, Ont., with McLeod also cleared of a separate related charge.
• The NHL has kept the players ineligible to play while it reviews the case findings.
• Hockey Canada says the five athletes remain suspended from all of its sanctioned programming.
• The NHL Players’ Association publicly criticized the league’s decision to maintain the players’ ineligibility post‑verdict.