Connor McDavid doesn’t have a contract beyond this season, the back-to-back champion Florida Panthers start their Stanley Cup threepeat bid without Matthew Tkachuk and nearly a third of NHL teams have a new head coach.

Training camps open around the league this week with questions from Edmonton to South Florida, many of which will not be resolved by the time another banner is raised and the puck is dropped on opening night Oct. 7. It’s the final season at 82 games before expanding to 84 , shortening camps and reducing exhibition play.

Also gone next year? Mandatory fitness testing.

“Next year,” Carolina’s Seth Jarvis said. “I still got one more year.”

Long overdue, Seattle captain Jordan Eberle quipped: “I wish that we did (away with) the fitness testing about 10 years ago.”

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