Six Stars players test positive, NHL revising schedule
Six Dallas Stars players and two staff members have recently confirmed positive tests for COVID-19, the NHL announced Friday.
The league said it is in the process of reviewing and revising the Stars’ regular season schedule with the expectation that the team will not open its 2020-21 season earlier than Tuesday, January 19.
The Stars cancelled practice earlier on Friday, but did not comment on why the team's practice was cancelled.
The Stars are currently scheduled to begin their season next week, facing the Panthers in back-to-back games in Florida starting Thursday.
Dallas - 6 players and 2 staff test positive, first 3 games cancelled.
MLB had eight teams with COVID concerns at one point. Rob Manfred said something about a possible pause a few weeks into the season, but nothing really came out of it.It will happen. They will deal with it just like MLB and NFL did.
The puck has not dropped on the first game and Dallas and Colorado are unable to start. This is going to be a goatf*** of a season. There is very little room for make-up games and you can expect every team will miss some and rescheduling will be impossible at some point. Could it be a team like Detroit as bad as they are could play all games and wind up in a playoff spot? What kind of controversy is this going to cause at the end of whatever season we have.Dallas - 6 players and 2 staff test positive, first 3 games postponed.
Kind of wish the NHL took a page out of the AHL's playbook in a regular-format season and went with points percentage determining if you were in or not.There is very little room for make-up games and you can expect every team will miss some and rescheduling will be impossible at some point.
14. The NBA has a rule that there must be eight players in uniform, or a team must forfeit. (Last Saturday, an injured Philadelphia 76er had to dress so they wouldn’t forfeit to Denver.) The NHL doesn’t have anything that specific, but Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Monday on a media Zoom call they don’t want teams playing “significantly shorthanded.” The AHL is contemplating a “14-and-2 rule,” 14 skaters and two goalies or no go. But the numbers could change before its season begins.
15. The AHL is also considering what to do if officials have to be quarantined. As it stands, as long as one referee is available, games will be a go.
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