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Nick Abruzzese’s hockey season is cancelled

Today, the Ivy League schools in the United States cancelled all their winter sports. Those schools with hockey programs are: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

For men’s hockey, all of these schools play in the NCAA ECAC. They leave that division with only Quinnipiac left (RPI already cancelled their season) which will have to move to find teams to play against. That is, if there is any games. It won’t be a surprise if the rest of the conferences and schools shut down completely.

This leaves players in a quandary. NCAA rules prevent players from playing on professional teams, even on loan and for no salary.