The NHL announced Monday that it has not received any positive coronavirus tests over the past week. The league administered 4,256 tests to more than 800 players during that span.
It's a positive sign as the NHL enters Phase 4 in its return-to-play plan. The 24 teams participating in this summer's tournament traveled to their hub cities (Toronto for the Eastern Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, for the Western Conference) on Sunday. Each team gets one exhibition game this week before meaningful games begin Saturday, Aug. 1.
Granted, the NHL is really the only professional sports league that is really international and culturally diverse. By culturally diverse I actually mean that the league is made up of people from lots of different countries, areas of the world, and cultures... not that the majority are black (as what most Americans see as the only means for cultural diversely).
Now many of these places (Canada, Scandinavia, Eastern European bloc nations) are not experiencing the same amount of cases as the United States. Furthermore, hockey isn't really much of a thing in the high density urban areas most afflicted by this disease.
Right now major league baseball is cancelling games and may well end up cancelling the season. Who knows if the NFL or NBA will ever get off the ground in 2020. But at the very least, it would appear that the NHL might have a season of some sort.
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Aotearoa Rugby has been playing for 2 months in NZ and Sanzar has been going for 6 weeks in Oz.
ESPN 2 has been showing
Marlins suspended
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/marlins/2020/07/28/miami-marlins-season-pause-after-covid-19-outbreak/5528651002/
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