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Originally Posted by Major Major
Hundreds of millions? It will fill up a few hotels and put some arena staff to work. That's about it.
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Yeah it wont be "100's" of millions but it will be 10's of millions when all is said and done.
Just hotel rooms alone would be many many millions. Then you add catering/restaurants and everything else that is an expense while travelling and it adds up in a hurry.
Usually about 50 people per team between players, coaches, management and media. Some a little more and some a little less. Then, in this scenario you would have to have expanded rosters for injury replacements. Add in the officiating staff and league personel...it gets pretty substantive. More like 60 per team X 31 teams and you are at 1860 rooms per night at say $150 per. Thats 280K per night for at least a month split between 4 sites. Somewhere around 30 million when all is said and done im guessing.
Thats assuming spouses and children aren't included. Then the consumption part of that tab rises.
Its a massive undertaking and one fraught with obstacles. Not the least of which is the players signing off on it all.
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Slap Shots has learned a Return to Play Committee established by the league and the union has conducted a pair of conference calls over the past three days with regularly scheduled “meetings” to follow.
Gary Bettman, Bill Daly, and senior VPs Colin Campbell and Steve Hatze Petros represent the NHL, while the NHLPA is represented by Don Fehr, Mathieu Schneider, general counsel Don Zavelo, divisional rep Steve Webb, and active players John Tavares, Connor McDavid, James van Riemsdyk, Mark Scheifele and Ron Hainsey. Medical advisers from both the league and union are added to the calls when appropriate.
Friday night, deputy commissioner Daly told TSN’s Ryan Rishaug, “Everything depends on the facts and entire set of circumstances, but no, we do not believe that one positive test, or even multiple positive tests [would] necessarily shut the whole thing down.”
Following that, Daly told Slap Shots in an email exchange, “Of course people who test positive would be immediately removed from the mix.”
Asked if he could clarify his statements in the interview, Daly said, “Everything depends on precise circumstances. I’m not about to go through a million fact patterns that are different and completely hypothetical.
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