The National Hockey League closed its New York office in wake of Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center and shifted all operations to its office in Toronto.

The NHL office is located at 1251 Avenue of the Americas at Rockefeller Center, four miles from the Twin Towers.

"As this point, the people who make decisions are getting in touch with family members," said Gary Meagher, vice president of public relations, from Toronto. "(The league is) in full communication from here."

The New York Rangers were scheduled to report to Madison Square Garden for physicals and endurance tests on Tuesday morning. A Rangers spokesman told ESPN.com that all players who were invited to camp arrived at the Garden safely. The status of camp was not immediately known. On-ice practice was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

This season is the first time in the team's 76-year history that training camp has been scheduled at the Garden. The Rangers usually prepare for the season at their practice facility, Playland Ice Casino, in Rye, N.Y.

If not for a change in hotel reservations last spring, however, the Rangers could have been victims of the terrorist attacks. The Rangers at one time had been booked to stay at the Marriott World Trade Center this week, a hotel in one of the towers destroyed by the hijacked planes.

But the team, which originally planned to hold its training camp at Chelsea Piers near the towers, decided to change hotels in May when it moved its camp uptown to the Garden.

"My God, we would've been right in the middle of it," Rangers spokesman John Rosasco told the Bloomberg News service.

Information on the status of Washington Capitals training camp, which opened Tuesday in Odenton, Md., or the Colorado Avalanche, who are traveling abroad in Sweden, was not immediately available.

The Toronto Maple Leafs, the only NHL team expected to fly on Tuesday, postponed their trip to St. John's, Newfoundland, where they were to hold training camp, after Canadian airports grounded all outgoing flights. St. John's is the home of the Leafs' American Hockey League affiliate.

"We won't be going ..." a Leafs spokesman said at Air Canada Center.

The Leafs will instead work out in Toronto on Wednesday.

In Germany, the Nuremberg Ice Tigers, with Americans Paul Stanton, Chris Luongo and David Emma, voted unanimously against playing the match with the Revier Loewens Oberhausen.

Oberhausen officials then reluctantly agreed, leading to the game being postponed just an hour before its scheduled starting time.

Sherry Skalko, the NHL editor for ESPN.com, contributed to this report.