There have been many extraordinary aspects to the National Hockey League's return to the ice after it paused its season for the coronavirus pandemic in March. Hockey being played in August. Stanley Cup playoff games held in empty arenas echoing with artificial crowd noise. But perhaps most notable of all about the restart: How much COVID-19 hasn't impacted it.
The first week of testing in Phase 4 of the NHL's return-to-play protocol, as teams entered the "hub" zones in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta, produced zero positive tests out of 7,703 of them.