"I can’t really judge what the NHL is thinking, but everybody’s getting sick of it."
For the first 11 weeks of the season, the Tampa Bay Lightning dodged COVID-19. While other organizations around the league were forced to postpone games and teams shut down operations amid outbreaks, the Lightning were unaffected. They shared the ice with teams that days later lost players to positive tests. But when the coronavirus did hit the Lightning, it spread quickly. In the past three weeks, nine players and three coaches went into the league’s protocol, creating day-to-day — and sometimes hour-to-hour — uncertainty about who would be available to take the ice.
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