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Stars owner Tom Gaglardi on The Ticket says "it& #39;s a bit of a horrifying thought" to think about NHL without fans. Said he doesn& #39;t think we need vaccine to see fans back in stadiums. Also admitted he doesn& #39;t know the solution to get fans back in.
Gaglardi mentioned models of plus/minus 4,000 fans in stadium where people could social distance at game. "Next week we might have some sort of a way that prevents people from dying. It may not be a vaccine, that could be a game-changer too."
"Could you stand outside your stadium and have 18,000 swabs and swab everyone in and take their temperature? I don& #39;t know. I don& #39;t know where this goes, when we play or what the circumstances might be. It& #39;s a fluid situation."
"We are just hoping to play. It& #39;s important for our league to play, whatever that looks like. Crown a Stanley Cup champion whenever that is. If it& #39;s in a neutral site with no fans, if that& #39;s where we end up landing, then obviously probably no financial reason to play ...
..but we& #39;re motivated to play for the right reasons. It& #39;s important for our league and I think we are in the same boat as NBA. Players want to play, that league wants to play & we are all trying to do the same things and finish our seasons and we owe it to our fans & our players"
"It& #39;s a crazy amount of stuff we have to clear over to get our selves into a position to play. But we are determined to do it and I think we& #39;ll play -- as crazy as the protocols might be. We& #39;re not going to play if we think there is a chance we can& #39;t finish the whole key...
...with all these protocols and a lot of the planning goes into & #39;alright somebody comes down with it,& #39; what& #39;s the protocol? because you can& #39;t shut down, you just can& #39;t shut down. That& #39;s the highest hurdle to clear."
Gaglardi says we& #39;ll figure out and you& #39;ll see sports this summer, not just hockey but other sports as well.
Gaglardi says the Stars have always preferred a later start to NHL season then it currently happens and would like it to be a more permanent change. "We& #39;d like to get past baseball, get high school football out of the way and find those golden months in a market like Dallas."
Gaglardi says if the 20-21 season starts late the Stars would hope it would be precedent setting to push league back to later start
Gaglardi says he& #39;s not lying when he says he has no idea what it& #39;ll look like like when it comes to playoff format.
(As a reminder all of this thread from Gaglardi& #39;s conversation on The Ticket with @SportsSturm that just happened)
