Fehr said that players want to make sure they don't inadvertently take something back to their familiesGETTY IMAGES
NHLPA Exec Dir Don Fehr said that his members, who remain "mostly scattered across North America and Europe since the season was paused March 12, have plenty of questions" about the NHL's plan to restart the season, according to Joshua Clipperton of the CP. Fehr said, "They want to make sure they understand what the plan is and why it is that way. They want assurance that not only have the maximum efforts been made to keep them safe, but they don't want to inadvertently take something back to their families." Fehr on the relationship between the league and players during the pandemic said, "What I can say is this: we’re faced with a common problem, which arose entirely outside the ordinary labour-management relationship, and we can’t resolve this by ourselves. There are things we don't know, and there are things we can't know about the future." He added, "There is ... a common recognition we're dealing with something entirely out of the ordinary, and we've got to figure out a way to deal with it. It's not something we caused. It's not something that the NHL caused." More Fehr: "Whatever it turns out to be -- a potential loss this year, a potential loss next year, if for some reason we can't play before full arenas -- we just have to deal with it. And it ain't gonna be pretty" (CP, 6/7).
