from the CP at TSN,
"It's been, 'What's going on? If I want to speak to doctors, who do I speak to? Do you have any idea how long this is going to last? Do you have any idea when we might be able to get access to rinks simply to do some sort of generalized conditional skating?'" Fehr said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press. "Their primary concern is for the health and safety of their families. Their (other) concerns are how we best prepare ourselves for the wide range of contingencies which might arise."
The Ottawa Senators announced Saturday a second player had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number in the NHL to two.
Both were part of the team's recent California road trip that included games in San Jose, Anaheim and Los Angeles. Ottawa played the Sharks at SAP Center on March 7 despite a recommendation by the county to not hold large public gatherings.
Fehr said he's not in a position at this point to second-guess if holding that game, and two subsequent contests, was the right call.
"We're still coming to grips with events," he said. "When this is all over, we can go back and look and see if, in light of hindsight, we would have made different decisions or whether based upon the available evidence they were the best decisions.
"We also don't know whether (Ottawa's game in San Jose) had anything to do with those (positive tests)."
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