COVID-19 forced the SFU18AAAHL to suspend play and ultimately cancel the rest of the campaign.“We were getting ready to get into the games and looking forward to it and then all of a sudden it’s shut down again and we were just having to practice all year,” forward Halle Helperl said.The Stars tried to make the most of the situation, devoting the extra practice time to skill development, but without the opportunity to compete against other teams, it just wasn’t the same.“It was mentally challenging to come to the rink every day.
We just knew that we had to come just to get better even though we weren’t really playing for anything, we knew that it would come up at least this year so we had to get ready for that,” Helperl said.But all work.