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Originally Posted by transplant99
Well that is patently false.
It was postponed due to covid.
They never said they wouldn't try and resume it at some point, which is what a cancelation would mean.
So now they cannot resume regular season play because of travel and health restrictions obviously.
They now wish to get the playoffs in and are proposing a way to do so that accounts for the uneven number of regular season games played. They think they have a formula for doing that both safely and fairly.
Really do not get the resistance for doing so particularly when you factor in that the players have received the vast majority of their salaries, yet the clubs have not received the vast majority of their revenues from the TV contracts.
If the players deem it not safe and dont want to play, then Im good with that and the reasoning. But when it appears they themselves want to play, the league wants to play, and I would guess a huge majority of fans want to see them play...why would they not do so if possible?
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This tournament is not the resuming of an NHL regular season nor is it the NHL playoffs. You can try and convince yourself that it's the resumption of the 2019/2020 season but it's not. It's a 24 team tournament designed to net the league some dough.