NHL executive tackles some coronoavirus questions

The NHL is discouraging players from conducting informal on-ice workouts, at least in the short term, as the league's shutdown because of coronavirus moves through its first full day.

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly, in a statement relayed via Ryan Rishaug of TSN, a Canadian sports network, also said that players do not necessarily have to remain in the cities where they are based if their family is located elsewhere.

Per direction from the league office, teams are not supposed to conduct practices or meetings until they are told otherwise.

Here is the full text of Daly's remarks:

"The general expectation is that players will remain in their club's home cities, absent unusual circumstances.…