As politicians and public health officials across Canada discuss steps towards easing physical distancing restrictions during the novel coronavirus pandemic, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is looking at a number of different scenarios in a possible restart of the 2019-20 season this summer.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said Wednesday that a special advisory committee on COVID-19 is working on setting criteria on when we can gradually return to normal, and will do so by analyzing hospitalization rates, the number of new cases and how the virus appears to be reproducing.
That public health part of the equation is vitally important because if health officials don’t give the National Hockey League the