What if the NHL has to cancel the rest of the season?

[herman]

Even if it?s mostly not fatal under normal circumstances, the highly contagious nature of the virus easily floods and overwhelms healthcare systems (see Italy) to the point where they cannot address every patient properly. It?s an abnormal circumstance when everyone trained to deal with it is burnt out or ill themselves due to lack of equipment and resources.

Making a big deal of it early helps it become a much smaller deal. See Y2K bug.

 

[Arn]

PGA has announced the Players championship (and other events) will continue without fans. The players will be essential staff only in attendance from tomorrow

 

[ZBBM]

NHL to hold conference call at 1 Eastern.

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1238125722516029440

https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1238127844687036417

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1238130340109201408

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I really don't see the point in just pushing things back a month. Not trying to be alarmist or anything but I doubt this is behind us by then.

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1238140236984717312

 

[Zee]

I wonder how lc9 can rip the Leafs for this?

 

[Guilt Trip]

Yeah I heard that the season will be suspended indefinitely.

Seems to me to be a little excessive given the mortality rates etc but they don?t have much choice considering the degree of panic that has erupted. It also appears to be highly contagious.

At least we won?t be eliminated in the first round again.

That's the reason it needs to be done. Stopping the spread is easier when you eliminate large group gatherings.

Exactly. Being proactive, even if deemed an overreaction by some, is the way to go. I think they should also shutdown the borders. No flights in from any effected country.

 

[bustaheims]

Yeah I heard that the season will be suspended indefinitely.

Seems to me to be a little excessive given the mortality rates etc but they don?t have much choice considering the degree of panic that has erupted. It also appears to be highly contagious.

At least we won?t be eliminated in the first round again.

That's the reason it needs to be done. Stopping the spread is easier when you eliminate large group gatherings.

Exactly. Being proactive, even if deemed an overreaction by some, is the way to go. I think they should also shutdown the borders. No flights in from any effected country.

That's a bit of a problem for us. Our economy and our food sourcing is so heavily tied to the U.S. that closing the borders is really not an option. At the very least, goods need to be able to travel, and that's hard to do without at least some people crossing, as well.

 

[Guilt Trip]

I really don't see the point in just pushing things back a month. Not trying to be alarmist or anything but I doubt this is behind us by then.

That's the great unknown. I think it'll be longer then a month and that's why the NHL asked about arena availability till the end of July. They could potentially start up late June or July and just have the playoffs. Who knows? I guess we'll find out as we go.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I really don't see the point in just pushing things back a month. Not trying to be alarmist or anything but I doubt this is behind us by then.

That's the great unknown. I think it'll be longer then a month and that's why the NHL asked about arena availability till the end of July. They could potentially start up late June or July and just have the playoffs. Who knows? I guess we'll find out as we go.

I assumed that meant they were eyeing an end of July target for the playoffs, but you could be right. Still if that's the target for when they want to resume, man just cancel everything and be done with it. Taking a multi-month break before playoffs is going to tarnish the the results anyway.

 

[Guilt Trip]

Yeah I heard that the season will be suspended indefinitely.

Seems to me to be a little excessive given the mortality rates etc but they don?t have much choice considering the degree of panic that has erupted. It also appears to be highly contagious.

At least we won?t be eliminated in the first round again.

That's the reason it needs to be done. Stopping the spread is easier when you eliminate large group gatherings.

Exactly. Being proactive, even if deemed an overreaction by some, is the way to go. I think they should also shutdown the borders. No flights in from any effected country.

That's a bit of a problem for us. Our economy and our food sourcing is so heavily tied to the U.S. that closing the borders is really not an option. At the very least, goods need to be able to travel, and that's hard to do without at least some people crossing, as well.

Not talking about food/goods. Talking about people travelling. All unnecessary travel should be banned from infected countries.

 

[L K]

It?s the right thing to do.  The latest projection data isn?t very optimistic for what **could** happen.  Crowd control is how we can mitigate the exposure and control the incidence rates.  The mortality rate is not reliable at this point due to a selected population that is generally sicker when they get screened.  It will be higher than influenza but nowhere near the 6.35%.

Common sense reigns supreme here.  Wash your hands.  Be smart about larger crowd events and otherwise just use common sense.

 

[Guilt Trip]

I really don't see the point in just pushing things back a month. Not trying to be alarmist or anything but I doubt this is behind us by then.

That's the great unknown. I think it'll be longer then a month and that's why the NHL asked about arena availability till the end of July. They could potentially start up late June or July and just have the playoffs. Who knows? I guess we'll find out as we go.

I assumed that meant they were eyeing an end of July target for the playoffs, but you could be right. Still if that's the target for when they want to resume, man just cancel everything and be done with it. Taking a multi-month break before playoffs is going to tarnish the the results anyway.

I think they'll take the wait and see approach here and like you mentioned, have a deadline date in mind to pack it all in. I'm sure they're going all kinds of scenarios.

 

[Arn]

https://twitter.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1238150499704193025


MLS shut down as well

 

[ZBBM]

They just suspended.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

I really don't see the point in just pushing things back a month. Not trying to be alarmist or anything but I doubt this is behind us by then.

That's the great unknown. I think it'll be longer then a month and that's why the NHL asked about arena availability till the end of July. They could potentially start up late June or July and just have the playoffs. Who knows? I guess we'll find out as we go.

I assumed that meant they were eyeing an end of July target for the playoffs, but you could be right. Still if that's the target for when they want to resume, man just cancel everything and be done with it. Taking a multi-month break before playoffs is going to tarnish the the results anyway.

There will be virtually no way for the players to stay in shape through time off.  They won't be able to skate.  I think the only gym time the would likely put in would be at a home gym, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the players don't bother having one because of the facilities they have through MLSE.

I can't see any way in which the season isn't over.  If so, at least it's a different flavour of disappointment than we're used to!

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/1238156578731294721

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/1238156578731294721

Of course this was one of the first responses:

https://twitter.com/DaveBrz/status/1238157096765489154

 

[princedpw]

It?s the right thing to do.  The latest projection data isn?t very optimistic for what **could** happen.  Crowd control is how we can mitigate the exposure and control the incidence rates.  The mortality rate is not reliable at this point due to a selected population that is generally sicker when they get screened.  It will be higher than influenza but nowhere near the 6.35%.

Common sense reigns supreme here.  Wash your hands.  Be smart about larger crowd events and otherwise just use common sense.

This is definitely the right thing to do.  There is a lot of evidence that the US (I?m not as up on Canada) should be taking far more extreme measures than they are immediately.  Everyone in the country who can stay home should stay home.  Every optional in-person meeting should be canceled.  The US is currently on an identical exponential growth rate as Italy and it would not be surprising if there are currently 10x or more cases than known.