Ok, Lyle, going off the grid for my idea on making the season work. 4 Hub cities for the “new divisions”.
Canadian Hub: Quebec City. The rink is good to go, just sitting and waiting for a NHL team. No partisan facilities.
East coast Hub: If any of the college teams/minor league teams aren’t starting, use those arenas. Same for West coast, and southern US teams. Just don’t use NHL arenas.
Hold viewing parties at the arenas, where capacity is at 33%. Half of the available tickets to season ticket holders by draw, other half available by draw to average fans. Concessions to be sold and delivered by app to the seats. By having at least 1 row between fans, the food runners can deliver to the seat easily. Can noise can be broadcast to the hub cities.
It’s just an idea, and needs lots of work and logistics to make it work, but it could be the start of a working model.
Ron Moore
on October 28, 2020 at 1:19 pm
It might have to be something like that but what we all need is a vaccine to put this to bed…and after it all, just hope we learned from this.
Darksyde, have you been tracking case numbers for Quebec? No chance of a bubble there.
George O
on October 28, 2020 at 5:04 pm
The province leads regularly in positive findings per day (averaging 1,000 per for the past while), and is far, far head in deaths attributed to the virus.
Now we see this report of a U.K. study that finds any gain immunity as a result of having it, fades within a few weeks and, as a result, when a vaccine does materialize, it may be necessary to administer it twice a year to everyone.
Any government perceived to be giving special consideration to sports – whether it’s related to things like quarantines, close association or vaccinations – might as well kiss their political butts goodbye
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Ok, Lyle, going off the grid for my idea on making the season work. 4 Hub cities for the “new divisions”.
Canadian Hub: Quebec City. The rink is good to go, just sitting and waiting for a NHL team. No partisan facilities.
East coast Hub: If any of the college teams/minor league teams aren’t starting, use those arenas. Same for West coast, and southern US teams. Just don’t use NHL arenas.
Hold viewing parties at the arenas, where capacity is at 33%. Half of the available tickets to season ticket holders by draw, other half available by draw to average fans. Concessions to be sold and delivered by app to the seats. By having at least 1 row between fans, the food runners can deliver to the seat easily. Can noise can be broadcast to the hub cities.
It’s just an idea, and needs lots of work and logistics to make it work, but it could be the start of a working model.
It might have to be something like that but what we all need is a vaccine to put this to bed…and after it all, just hope we learned from this.
Darksyde, have you been tracking case numbers for Quebec? No chance of a bubble there.
The province leads regularly in positive findings per day (averaging 1,000 per for the past while), and is far, far head in deaths attributed to the virus.
Now we see this report of a U.K. study that finds any gain immunity as a result of having it, fades within a few weeks and, as a result, when a vaccine does materialize, it may be necessary to administer it twice a year to everyone.
Any government perceived to be giving special consideration to sports – whether it’s related to things like quarantines, close association or vaccinations – might as well kiss their political butts goodbye
https://ottawasun.com/health/covid-19-immunity-wanes-within-weeks-u-k-study-finds-results-suggest-vaccine-needed-twice-a-year/wcm/d281af42-b96e-4436-b262-4f67b707a46b
Re – Lake Louise
I get the sponsorship issue, but how cool would it be for the NHL to play here?
https://www.banfflakelouise.com/ice-skating