The new date is Dec 21, 2021.
The National Hockey League will temporarily suspend its season on Wednesday due to a rise in Covid-19 cases among its players, in a move that makes it the first major American sporting league to temporarily suspend its season.
The National Hockey league is the first major American sporting league to announce a pause.
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The league said in a statement that all team facilities will be closed from Wednesday through Saturday.
The league expects the regular season to resume on Monday, December 27 after five games that were scheduled for Thursday were postponed.
The players will report back to the teams on December 26 for Covid-19 testing.
The Traveling Party will not enter the facility until they have a negative test result.
The games scheduled for Tuesday are still on as scheduled, but they are pending test results.
49. There have been five postponements of NHL games so far this season. In the past seven days, 44 postponements have taken place.
The key background.
The NHL and the player association announced on Sunday that they will try to continue with the season instead of shutting it down. The NHL said it would cancel all travel between the US and Canada during the holiday season. Ten of the league's 32 teams had already closed their facilities on Monday. More than 15% of the league's 700-plus players are under the Covid-19 protocols, which means they either returned a positive or inconclusive result in a Covid-19 test.
The NHL's participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics has been jeopardized by the league's schedule disruption. The league and its player's union agreed to participate in the Winter Olympics for the first time in four years in their most recent collective bargaining agreement. The league may have to pull out of the global event in order to complete its season.
The NHL is the first US sport to stop play because of the coronaviruses.
The NHL shuts down Wednesday through Saturday.
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