The Fischler Report: 12/18/20

NHL Primed To Launch, Bruins Have their Cap Under Control, and loads of Gossip...

OBSERVATIONS

*GARY BETTMAN, his owners and the NHL Players' Association are on the threshold of officially green-lighting a 2020-21 season. Once again they'll be defeating the oddsmakers and assorted -- some sordid -- critics who said it couldn't be done. These are the same naysayers who freely predicted that the NHL never would be able to clo…