Deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed the NHL and NHLPA are not considering putting teams in quarantined 'bubbles' for training camps.
‘s confidence in the NHL returning has not been shaken by word of 11 fellow players testing positive for the coronavirus.
"I’m pretty confident that once we get into hub cities, we’ll be able to do a good job of keeping it out," Spezza said. "I think getting there is going to be the challenge, and that’s where it takes a little bit of discipline for us as players to make sure we don’t kind of derail the plans." "You have a whole bunch of people in close proximity to each other for prolonged periods of time, they may be travelling together exposed to other individuals that you don’t know who they’ve been exposed to," Carolinas Medical Center medical director of infection prevention Katie Passaretti said.
Voluntary workouts of up to six players on the ice at a time were able to begin June 8, with that limit increased to 12 this week amid stringent safety protocols. In other sports, Major League Baseball closed its training facilities in Florida and Arizona, and the NFLPA told its members to stop private workouts in light of rising coronavirus numbers in some places.
Two weeks away from the scheduled start of camps and less than a month from when games might begin, some players still have questions.
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