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"I think it's a question we'll have to look
into," Trudeau said in a press briefing. "Certainly at a strict
minimum, anyone who arrives from another country will have to
follow all the rules of quarantine in an extremely strict
manner, but we're not there yet in our discussions with the
NHL."
He continued: "We recognize that it's a possibility, but it
depends on an enormous amount of things, and I don't want to
speculate on this until there's more discussion."
The season was halted on March 12, one day after the NBA
suspended play when Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz was diagnosed
with the coronavirus. At least eight NHL players have been
diagnosed with COVID-19 -- five of them from the Ottawa
Senators.
The NHL is hoping to finish the 2019-20 season and award the
Stanley Cup, while deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a radio
interview on Friday that Edmonton is among the cities under
consideration should the league decide to use centralized
locations for games. Toronto is another city reportedly in
consideration to be a "hockey pod."
Daly also said frequent testing for COVID-19 would be required
for play to resume, provided that ample tests are available and
that the general public would not be deprived of tests.
"We're going to need to have access to testing, and we're going
to make it a point that we're not accessing testing, even in a
private way, if testing availability is an issue in the
community," Daly told 630 CHED in Edmonton. "We will not test
asymptomatic players ahead of symptomatic people who are unable
to get tested. It's just something we will not do."
--Field Level Media
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