The NHL is out of its bubble and are now experiencing the same world that the other North American sports leagues live in. With teams closing training facilities in the NFL and the daily reports of who will be on the reserve/COVID-19 list — they had to rename the injured list for crying out loud — this is just another day in the life of a league that wants to keep active in the middle of a global pandemic.
We’re not far removed from the weeks of the St. Louis Cardinals seemingly playing several games in the same day because they had so many positive cases that ceased the team’s operations as the league around them kept on going.