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NHL: Suspends season| Postpones season| Season covid
The National Hockey League (NHL; French: Ligue nationale de Hockey-LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America consisting of 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, [4] and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America,[5] awarded annually to the league playoff champions at the end of each season. The NHL is the fifth richest professional sports league in the world by revenue, after the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the English Premier League (EPL).
| Sport | Ice hockey |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 26, 1917, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1] |
| Inaugural season | 1917–18 |
| Commissioner | Gary Bettman |
| No. of teams | 32 |
| Countries | Canada (7 teams) United States (25 teams) |
| Headquarters | 1185 6th Avenue New York City, New York |
| Most recent champion(s) |
Tampa Bay Lightning (3rd title) |
| Most titles | Montreal Canadiens (25 titles)[nb 1] |
Suspends season
Amid COVID-19 cases, NHL halted season on Wednesday, restarting as scheduled after Christmas break
The NHL will halt its season on Wednesday, two days before its planned Christmas break, the league announced Monday evening.
All NHL team facilities will be closed Wednesday through Saturday as the league tries to cope with the multiple COVID-19 outbreaks. Players are set to report back to team facilities on Sunday and resume daily testing. The NHL schedule is set to resume on December 27.
The decision left just three games on the NHL slate before the break: Monday’s game between the Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild, Tuesday’s match between the Washington Capitals and the Philadelphia Flyers (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), and between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Philadelphia Flyers. Tuesday’s game. Vegas Golden Knights.
While the Stars beat the Wilds 7-4 on Monday, the NHL postponed a Capital-Flyers game with Washington on Tuesday afternoon due to the COVID outbreak.
It has been a challenging week for the NHL, as 11 teams have suspended operations and the league has suspended all games through Christmas involving cross-border travel between Canada and the US with more than 15% of the league. The players were in virus protocol until Monday night.
Postpones season
The NHL decided that Christmas Eve was the time to announce more postponements.
Released on Friday night, the league announced the postponement of all 14 games that were originally scheduled for December 27, the date the teams were originally back in action after an already extended holiday break. was scheduled to return.
Schedule Update: NHL delays game play by one day; Games scheduled for December 27 postponed.
Season covid
The headlines on Monday night were, if not surprising: The NHL was going to halt the 2021-22 season on Wednesday, and restart after the Christmas break, amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. This was followed by a flurry of team shutdowns, reducing the number of games on the schedule.
Next, we are left with a number of questions: How will the teams get “stopped”? Will there be a change in protocol? How does this affect the Olympics and All-Star Weekends?
NHL journalists Emily Kaplan, Kristen Shilton and Greg Wishinsky take those questions and more to get you up to speed.
