The NHL hopes to resume play next Monday with a full slate of games, but some of those tilts are cross-border affairs between teams from the U.S. and Canada.
So it’s fair to wonder if those games will take place.
Also, many teams could still be heavily COVID-depleted coming out of the Christmas pause. The NHL could mitigate that by shortening the down time for asymptomatic players who have tested positive for the virus, but we’ll have to see what the league does.
