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NHL season to start Jan. 13 with 56-game season

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I thought the league wasn’t going to ask the players to do a bubble again.

 

Also a little late to be suggesting this to them.

 

I wonder what further testing procedures they could be asking for.

 

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Seravalli has more details on the ask of the health authorities:

https://www.tsn.ca/talent/provinces-provide-roadmap-to-potential-green-light-for-nhl-s-canadian-teams-1.1568375

 

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The five Canadian provincial health authorities with jurisdiction over NHL games responded to the NHL’s Return to Play proposal with a joint letter on Wednesday asking for additional measures.

 

In the letter, written by Alberta Health chief medical officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw and obtained by TSN, the provinces presented the NHL with two options that could provide a road map to a green light to start the season with each team playing out of its own arena.

 

The fate of the NHL’s all-Canadian “North” division hangs on approval by Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

 

The first option called for a “regular testing schedule for players, staff, coaches and close contacts, with close household contact testing required if players are living at home between travel episodes.” It also asked for “enhancing the schedule … to group games into blocks to limit inter-jurisdictional travel between provinces.”

 

“Specifically in the early part of the season, it will be important to make these considerations wherever possible,” Dr. Hinshaw wrote.

 

Currently, the NHL’s protocol calls for daily testing for team members only during training camp and the first four weeks of the regular season. After that, the need for daily testing will be re-evaluated. In addition, family members are only tested “when requested,” and it is at the cost of the players.

 

The provincial health authorities’ request might also require the NHL to readjust the schedule that was released on Wednesday. The Canadiens, Senators and Maple Leafs all travel out to Western Canada in January in the first weeks of the season.

 

That is the NHL's best bet. Because the second option is decidedly less palatable. It called for the NHL to “reinstate a ‘bubble’ model for the beginning of the season, similar to what was used in the Hub City Series in Edmonton and Toronto.”

 

The health authorities jointly said that they would support a “phased bubble model (full bubble for 4-6 weeks and then a modified bubble following) … or a full bubble model would be most appropriate.”

 

If not, the provinces called for a delay to starting the season.

 

“Should any iteration of the bubble model not be achievable for the NHL, we would recommend that the start of the season be delayed for a few weeks to allow for disease rates to drop and our health systems to recover,” Dr. Hinshaw wrote.

 

For both the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association, there does not appear to be any appetite to open the season in a bubble or hub environment in Canada. Sources indicated that message had previously been delivered to the health authorities during the course of their ongoing dialogue.

 

However, Dr. Hinshaw’s letter seemed to indicate that the provinces are jointly “committed to working towards a collective approach to reviewing the fine protocols from the NHL,” and conveyed their “collective support to allow the NHL to resume play with the appropriate risk mitigations in place.”

 

The NHL is expected to respond to Dr. Hinshaw’s letter on Thursday.

 

The clock is ticking. The puck is scheduled to drop on Jan. 13 in Canada with a Leafs/Habs and Canucks/Oilers doubleheader.

 

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3 hours ago, mll said:

Seravalli has more details on the ask of the health authorities:

https://www.tsn.ca/talent/provinces-provide-roadmap-to-potential-green-light-for-nhl-s-canadian-teams-1.1568375

 

 

If they were planning on having fans in the stands i could understand the hold up, but these players have a much smaller risk of spreading covid than the average person who travels roght now

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27 minutes ago, runtzguy said:

How about instead of a city bubble format. We put the players inside bubbles then they can do whatever they want but they must remain inside their own personal bubbles until of course they get on the ice where they can then remove said bubble.

Ahh, just leave them in the bubbles on the ice too...why not...

 

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There won’t be fans but for the first time since March 2020, the Canucks will hit the ice at Rogers Arena for NHL game action in January.

After discussions between the league, the players’ association and public health officials from the five provinces that are home to NHL teams, an agreement was reached Thursday to move forward with games being played in the seven home arenas across the country beginning Jan. 13.

 

Wednesday, the top medics from Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec sent a letter to the NHL detailing two options for the league to move forward with their approval of games being played in home arenas but without fans because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions: either increased testing for the players’ contacts and some suggested modifications to the regular season schedule, or a delay to the start of the season.

It appears the NHL agreed to do more testing, leading multiple sources to confirm Thursday to Postmedia that there is “alignment” between the league and the provinces.

Sportsnet’s Chris Johnston reported Thursday that it doesn’t appear that there will be a re-jigging of the schedule that the NHL had announced on Wednesday, which sees the seven Canadian teams playing each other exclusively this season. Public health officials had suggested the schedule should feature more “blocking” of games between teams.

The NHL’s schedule already has teams playing two or more games during each visit to an opposing city: for example the Canucks’ first two games of the year are both in Edmonton, their next two are then in Calgary.

 

The NHL’s protocols already called for visiting teams to not leave their hotels while in away cities. Teams have long travelled only on charter flights and the league is enhancing protocols around team travel as well.

The Canucks will open their home schedule Jan. 20 at Rogers Arena against the Montreal Canadiens.

 

https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/yes-the-vancouver-canucks-will-play-at-rogers-arena-this-season

 

 

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!

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