As the implications associated with COVID-19 complicated matters and skewered schedules for several, if not, the majority of teams located south of the border in the early weeks and months of the NHL regular season, the league's seven Canadian franchises remained largely unaffected, able to operate without much concern in their own international silo.
It was no reason to puff out a single chest, really, but the minor successes Canada had in flattening its curves from wave to wave, as well as the diligence shown from organizations facing these unprecedented challenges, was a least worth acknowledging.
The best was being made of a bad situation, it seemed.