What if the NHL has to cancel the rest of the season?
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I'm able to stay home and work from home and by girlfriend manages a hotel - near Pearson I might add. She has to go in every day. She wants to maintain closeness but I have a lung condition where I get bronchitis pretty easily so any human contact right now is making me apprehensive. This isn't going to be easy....Nik Bethune said:
https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1239558529738039303
So the league is following the CDC's directive to cancel or postpone events with 50 people or more for 8 weeks. That puts the earliest return date sometime in May.
So the league is following the CDC's directive to cancel or postpone events with 50 people or more for 8 weeks. That puts the earliest return date sometime in May.
ZBBM
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
The plan would be to open training camps in early July.
Players aren?t fond of the idea of jumping right into the playoffs, so one idea is to begin a truncated conclusion to the regular season that wraps up by the end of July.
That would give teams with an unequal number of games played a chance to make their final cases for the postseason, while also providing ?warm-up? contests for teams firmly in playoff position.
Then a two-month sprint for Lord Stanley would begin in August, with the Stanley Cup awarded by the end of September.
A three- to four-week transition period would follow in October with the draft, free agency and training camps.
Then the full 2020-21 regular season ? a condensed, 82-game schedule ? would commence in November with the Stanley Cup awarded again in late June, 2021.
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl-players-spitballing-late-july-return-august-postseason-1.1458274
My idea makes more sense (he said, humbly). In the above,
1. They are on the clock nonstop for almost a year.
2. They have to cram 82 games into 1 less month.
That's a recipe for (a) crappy hockey by this time next year and (b) injuries by the ge-oodle.
Imagine running a marathon where the first 20 miles of it are completed on March 1st and the last 6 are run on September 1st and the winner is the person with the best combined time.
If we're in for a long, multi-month break anything that happens when they come back will just be complete chaos and the winner will never truly feel like a Stanley Cup champion. I don't get how awarding a sham winner is better than just not having one.
If we're in for a long, multi-month break anything that happens when they come back will just be complete chaos and the winner will never truly feel like a Stanley Cup champion. I don't get how awarding a sham winner is better than just not having one.
Zee
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CarltonTheBear said:
Yep I really didn't like that proposed approach I saw where they have some mini training camp and then squeeze playoffs into Sept-Oct and start the next season in November. Just cancel this year, award no Cup and start as regular in October (provided they can)
Nik Bethune said:
And being able to afford it.
bustaheims
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Nik Bethune said:
Yup. At this point, the smarter choice feels like ending the season where we are, and starting fresh in the fall.
Arn
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The British league has ended that way - declared the season void and that there?ll be no winner and quite frankly I feel that?s the right decision. Sport has never really felt as insignificant as it does right now. It?s strange how the atmosphere has changed so rapidly. I?ve never felt or experienced anything even close to being like it and I grew up through what was basically a civil war.
Edit to also add: I am finding it hard to motivate myself to go to work at the minute also or to go about my usual daily routines (and from Monday my work is shutting our office and enforcing work from home). I imagine mentally it will also be tough for athletes to go back to work.
Edit to also add: I am finding it hard to motivate myself to go to work at the minute also or to go about my usual daily routines (and from Monday my work is shutting our office and enforcing work from home). I imagine mentally it will also be tough for athletes to go back to work.