Ben Kuzma: Can Canucks find camp quarantine solution that works?
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The Province Hockey
The logistics of staging a shortened 2020-21 NHL season have finally become the front-burner issue. While the fire between the NHL Players Association and league owners still rages to resolve significant salary deferral and escrow issues, that heat has been temporarily turned down to deal with the moving target of training camp and season commencement dates. Part of the pay clause pause is planning for an all-Canadian division. And part of that is adjusting to a strong second wave of the coronavirus pandemic that has shut down NHL training facilities in Montreal and Winnipeg.
We check in every couple of days with the B.C. Ministry of Health and the rules and regulations could change with quarantine and when we start camp.
We have the process underway with work visas for players who need them and when we do get the green light, we’re ready to go.
Or, they could lobby the Health Ministry to work in concert with provincial and federal governments in the hopes of conducting a cohort group quarantine for all players during camp.
The Canucks could bring 40-45 players to camp and, when you add coaches, management and support staff, they could easily go over that limit.
We check in every couple of days with the B.C. Ministry of Health and the rules and regulations could change with quarantine and when we start camp.
We have the process underway with work visas for players who need them and when we do get the green light, we’re ready to go.
Or, they could lobby the Health Ministry to work in concert with provincial and federal governments in the hopes of conducting a cohort group quarantine for all players during camp.
The Canucks could bring 40-45 players to camp and, when you add coaches, management and support staff, they could easily go over that limit.