The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee say they will not send athletes#to compete in Tokyo#if the Games go ahead as scheduled, set to begin on July 24th.
The Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee say they will not send athletes#to compete in Tokyo#if the Games go ahead as scheduled, set to begin on July 24th.
I don't know. With some NHL players and staff testing positive, I would not be surprised if more cases pop up in the next few weeks. If only one player has it, it could easily spread to others. The NHL would look terrible if they started the playoffs only to have players get sick and have to cancel again.
I think announcing the season is over, is just a formality at this point. There is no reason to rush a decision though.
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Obviously there is going to be a HUGE amount of pressure from pro sports leagues to restart, and with the disproportionate amount of teams in the tire fire to the south, there will be tremendous pressure on Canada to adopt the standards adopted by the Americans.
Knowing what we know now and the massive steps that have been taken thus far to combat this virus, it is difficult for me to imagine where the regulatory threshold to allow multiple 20 000 seat venues to come back online is met. i think it's optimistic to believe 10 months from now there is any pro sport being played.
The longer we go without them, the harder it will be to restart IMO.
I'm not predicting the NHL will go away, but I think a league wide contraction is certainly not out of the realm of possibility in a situation where a team like the florida panthers goes a year without revenue and can't get any profit sharing from the rest of the league.
Arenas and stadiums need anchor tenants to be sure, but I truly wonder how long some of these teams can hold out, even without much in the way of overhead.
IMO, I think it really puts the arena deal in Calgary in jeopardy as well.
I just don't see how the NHL and other professional teams can actually restart their operations with this outbreak being still an issue. These players fly all over North America, stay in countless hotels and ride how many buses in a season? They are eating and drinking at a whole host of restaurants and generally speaking interact with how many people on a regular basis.
The superstars of sport attract fans everywhere you go and I don't know how you completely stop those interactions? Sure players can say no and take precautions but there literally is NOTHING to stop people coming up to other human beings anywhere and saying hello or asking for a pic.
What happens if an outbreak occurs during the playoffs? A specific team and coaching staff being destroyed by this virus and having players and coaches in isolation. Who want's to win that way?
I will be the first to admit I would not want to watch the Flames in the cup finals vs a team that isn't fielding a proper team. I wouldn't be thrilled and clapping loud and proud if we beat an eastern club that's missing 10 key players and their coach and an asterisk next to our engraving. It's not a worth it.
We may be getting ahead of ourselves as the financial ramifications of all of this are becoming boarderline unthinkable. This has and will make the 2008 financial crisis look like a summer picnic in the park with a group of Supermodels drinking champagne while feeding you grapes and massaging you.
We literally have some of the largest, most stable and vitally important companies in the USA burning through cash at an insane rate. Their survival is in questions!! The cash burn combined with them drawing down on emergency credit lines is going to have even more concerns for the financial markets.
If some of the largest, wealthiest and most powerful companies in the US are wondering how they will make payroll, what makes us think that individual sports owners will? Look at the Canadian dollar. A $82 million cap is $120 million Canadian. It's a gong show all around!
Australia has joined Canada in saying they won't be sending athletes to Tokyo for the Olympics if they are held as scheduled in July.
The UK is expected to follow suit soon.
I expect this will begin to snowball this week and the Games will officially be postponed. Australia has apparently told their athletes to start preparing for a summer 2021 Olympics.
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What are implications for draft?
What are implications for trades that occurred?
What are the implications for cap?
I'm assuming a flat cap, and I'm also assuming that the draft will be based on the standings or some version of them (points percentage maybe) to calculate the lottery odds.
However, the trades thing is what gets me - what do you do about conditional trades? I.e., a 2nd that becomes a 1st if the team makes the playoffs? Did the teams in a playoff position "make the playoffs" for purposes of those trades? And if they do come back and do some zany 24 team tournament, does that qualify as "making the playoffs" for those purposes?
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