Detroit — The Red Wings are ready to embark on a new NHL challenge: an actual road trip.
What was usually a fairly standard part of the daily business has changed dramatically in a pandemic.
The NHL has issued a travel protocol to teams establishing guidelines from meals, how to go about a hotel stay, air and bus travel, and making sure sanitizer is available everywhere you’d need it.
In all, it sounds like it’ll be a lonely existence.
“At the end of the day, it’s the sacrifice to play the game right now,” said forward Anthony Mantha, who has heard from other friends around the league how life on the road is now “bad.