From frank_seravalli: Friday Five: Lingering NHL questions to ponder. ARTICLE:
1. Will playoff records be broken?
If the playoffs can indeed be completed, the qualifying round adds a minimum of three to five games onto the usual maximum of 28. Wayne Gretzky’s record 47 points in one playoff run is probably safe, but those extra games might be enough to threaten other records. That is tentative because a lot will depend on how quickly – or in what capacity, if at all – fans can fill arenas. Some NHL owners and team presidents have privately stated that they would rather play a shortened season with some fans or full buildings rather than starting a full season without.
It makes you wonder how the typically conservative NHL – which saw just one player, Tampa Bay’s J.T. Brown, raise a fist on the bench during the national anthem in 2017 – will handle social messaging when the puck drops. Some players with underlying medical conditions may not have to make the choice. After consultation with team doctors and infectious disease experts, if a player is determined to “be at substantial risk of developing a serious illness as a result of exposure to the novel coronavirus” he will be “deemed unfit to play and shall not be permitted to participate” in both training camp and the bubble.
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