[Guest Post] Testing times for the NHL playoffs: Keeping players safe during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kelley Lee Gilmore (@profplum8), PhD. is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University. This is Kelley’s second post for Hockey in Society. As a self-confessed hockey obsessive, in serious withdrawal since the sudden suspension of the National Hockey League (NHL) season on March…

Remember when we were worried about a stick shortage?

Five to six weeks ago the biggest concern for the world of hockey with respect to Covid-19 was a hockey stick shortage. Multiple outlets reported the story as a problem in China that would only affect the “world’s top players” because CCM and Bauer’s Chinese manufacturing plants had been shut down indefinitely. Jack Eichel, who…