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Originally Posted by Bingo
So you're suggesting the IIHF four weeks before exhibition games are to start should have just canceled their annual money maker in Canada without the case load based on the idea that this wave would behave like the last few have?
Imagine if they did that and it didn't come into Canada.
Don't get me wrong, I'm with you in thinking this could get tense. But it's a big difference between thinking this could go bad and making a multi million dollar decision to quickly shift to a bubble or cancel the whole thing and then be wrong.
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I’m saying the prospect of the host city being in the midst of a major covid upsurge during the tournament wasn’t evident only in hindsight - it was the most likely scenario. Whatever other considerations the organizers had to grapple with, surprise shouldn’t have been one of them.