COMMENTARY
For all of the NHL’s determination to pull off the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season, as revealed in a detailed multi-phase reopening plan Tuesday, it remains impossible to say now whether we’ll have the pleasure of watching David Pastrnak, Patrice Bergeron, and the rest of an excellent 2019-20 Bruins team on the ice again anytime soon.
There’s a reason the league’s re-opening plan managed to be both thorough and vague at once. In a world certain to be fraught with lingering COVID-19 uncertainty deep into the summer, there are simply too many uncontrollable variables in play to guarantee that they will play.