from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

I’m not about to substitute my judgment for those far more knowledgeable about the coronavirus who have deigned it safe for the NHL to operate out of its home cities in the 2020-21 season, which is on target to commence Jan. 13.

But it is counterintuitive, is it not, that the NHL went dark through the spring and early summer and then only resumed play inside two hermitically sealed bubbles in Canada, but is now set to go full bore through a winter in which infection rates, hospitalizations and deaths are generally occurring at a higher rate than when the league deemed it unsafe to play?

Health agencies across the continent have given their blessing to the NHL’s plan, so it is not as if Gary Bettman is running an outlaw operation here. Indeed, the commissioner has been eminently responsible through the pandemic.

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