Hockey exhibition games begin July 28 and the qualifiers for the playoffs begin August 1.
"We are in a bubble, Major League Baseball is not," Boston Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said onOne of the highest-profile athletes to contract Covid-19 was Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The All-Star forward tested positive while at his home in Arizona, which quickly became one of the hardest-hit areas in the world with 163,827 confirmed cases.
"It was not a hotspot for like two months, it was like the safest place to be, and then obviously things kind of flipped pretty quickly there,” Matthews toldAlso indicative of the different approaches of not just the NHL and NBA but the U.S. and Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays are barred from playing their home games in the city and will be forced to play most of their home games in Buffalo, New York. The U.S. leads the globe in cases of the coronavirus with 4,271,095.
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