The NHL announced that its four Stanley Cup Playoff games scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been postponed after players on all eight remaining teams decided not to play as a form of protest against systemic racism and police brutality. “After much discussion, NHL players believe the best deal would …
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As for the round-robin, six predicted that the Golden Knights of Vegas would be the no. 1 in the West would end; but one (Mike G. Morreale), correctly selected the Golden Knights for no. 1 in the West and the Philadelphia Flyers to no. 1 to end in the East. …
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TORONTO – The weirdest sight inside Scotiabank Arena is not the seat covers, the giant screens, or the LED lights. He’s the man running through all that, literally running, climbing the seats, avoiding obstacles, with a pool skimmer. He has been called the “pool boy”. Have we gone to the …
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The NHL is trying to make this seem easy. This is the opposite. This is nothing less than a historic company, something we have never seen before and hope never to see again. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, which paused the season on March 12 and has disrupted society around the …
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Illustration: Eric Barrow (Shutterstock) What we have learned so far about sports trying to return to the US in the midst of a pandemic (and ballooning) is that no model has proven to be safe. The “bubble” model did not protect MLS from contaminating its Orlando bubble to the point …
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