The Christmas break is extended, even if for now only by one day, for the NHL champions, after the North American Professional Hockey League postponed the resumption of the championship from Monday to Tuesday.
This is to allow us to analyze the results of the swabs on the players and evaluate how many are able to play in the face of the continuous increase in Covid-19 infections.
Tomorrow, when training is expected to resume, we will decide what to do.
The league and the players' union had already anticipated the holidays to December 22, two days ahead of schedule, hoping for some change but the postponement of the 14 games scheduled for next Monday brings the total of those that will have to be sooner or later to 64. recover.
The window is already available, as the NHL and the players union decided days ago not to allow athletes to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, so the three weeks in which the championship would have been on hiatus for the Games would be used. for recoveries.
