from Michael Traikos of the National Post,

There won’t be anymore hockey this year. No playoffs. No Stanley Cup. Not with the coronavirus continuing to claim more and more lives every day.

And yet, as days and weeks pass by, the NHL commissioner still isn’t ready to pull the plug just yet.

“When we’ll have the opportunity to return depends on things that we have absolutely no control over,” Bettman told CNN on Monday. “We don’t know when we can come back. But it’s something we’re monitoring on a daily basis.”

Selfishly, we all cannot wait for the NHL to return, if only because we want normalcy to return. A world without sports is a world we really don’t want to live in. At the same time, do we really want to crown a Stanley Cup champion in this environment?

It has been a full month since the NHL shut its doors and paused the season. It will likely be another two months or more before it’s safe to open them again. During this time, players haven’t had accessed to ice. Most are training, but a lack of equipment has some simply performing push-ups or bench-pressing their pets.

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