The NHL's best-of-five qualifying round starts next Saturday, along with the seeding round for the top four teams in each conference.
TORONTO -- NHL players have been eager to find out what life will be like inside the bubble.The 24 teams -- each with a 52-person travelling party -- set to participate in the league's restart entered the secure zones in two Canadian cities ahead of the resumption the pandemic-halted 2019-20 season.
People entering Canada usually have to isolate for a mandatory 14 days upon arrival, but the federal government approved the NHL's modified cohort quarantine plan -- 18 of the 24 teams involved in the restart are based in the United States -- paving the way for the games to be held north of the 49th parallel."The really unique thing about this is we're going to be with each other 24/7 pretty much," Hyman said of his teammates.
"It's pretty impressive what they've been able to throw together in just over three weeks, a month," Toronto defenceman Tyson Barrie said. "Sounds like it's gonna be pretty good food and they'll have some stuff set up for us, but at the end of the day when you're in playoffs you're not doing a whole lot anyway. You just play the game, practice, go home and rest, eat well.
Four-time Grammy winner Michael Buble is slated to perform the national anthems for the opening games next weekend, while video game company EA Sports is set to provide crowd noise inside the fan-less Scotiabank Arena and Rogers Place. Officials with the Oilers and local Indigenous leaders held a pipe ceremony Sunday at Rogers Place just outside of a plaza surrounded by a fence that marked the boundary for the bubble.
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