NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and the team owners all put their minds together yesterday and got the announcement out on all the major social media platforms by 11:00 o’clock in the afternoon that the rest of the season is on hold. Seeing as the NBA halted their season immediately after a player tested positive for COVID-19 right before a game the previous night, it was already on the wall that the NHL would take similar precautions considering that many NBA and NHL teams share arenas and facilities.
Only eleven games stood between the 29-33-9 Anaheim Ducks before their early off-season would begin, but now, that is sadly the reality for all teams playoff bound or lottery hopefuls.