from Emily Kaplan of ESPN,

As the 2021-22 NHL season opens, the Arizona Coyotes are the only team with plans to fully relax their game-day dress code for players, according to an ESPN survey of all 32 teams.

The NHL is the only one among the four North American major men's professional sports league with a strict gameday dress code spelled out into its collective bargaining agreement. Exhibit 14, Paragraph 5 of the CBA reads: "Players are required to wear jackets, ties and dress pants to all Club games and while traveling to and from such games unless otherwise specified by the Head Coach or General Manager."

The NHL told players they can dress however they wanted to games during the 2020 postseason bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, something players generally enjoyed, but the league reverted back to the CBA policy last season.

But not the Coyotes; Alex Meruelo Jr., the team's chief brand officer, approached former team captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson with the concept before last season to ease the dress code for home games, and Ekman-Larsson loved it.

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