Can you imagine winning a Stanley Cup with hugging prohibited? Can you imagine passing the Cup around, while ungloved, or putting it through all its off-season indignities without immediate cleansing?...

...It is time to shelter in place and shutter the season, not because hockey is too superfluous to play, but because it is too important to contort.

-Mark Whicker of the LA Daily News where you can read much more on this topic.