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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If we start seeing vaccines coming out, they could run this for the first have of the season, and maybe open it up for the second half. From the sounds of it we may have vaccines by then. I'm sure the NHL would be willing to pay a premium to get access. Now, whether the border opens or not at that point is the big question, but I could see a lot of pressure for them to do it for vaccinated people.
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Where do you think Canada ranks on getting vaccines before the US and the EU are fully vaccinated? Countries that spent Billions and Billions getting the Vaccine developed are obviously going to have much higher priority than a country that kicked in a fraction of the $$ when the vaccines were in Phase 3 of the testing protocol.
Whoever is the US president would invoke the Defense production act to get the US vaccinated first.
40% of NHL revenue is from ticket sales. The US will have ticket sales and Canada will not.
Likely the US will open the border to the vaccinated NHL teams/groups but why would they play games in empty Canadian arenas.