Sask. Hockey says return to games by end of March ‘is looking bleak’
A return to hockey games in the province is “unlikely to happen before the end of March,” the Saskatchewan Hockey Association (Sask. Hockey) said in a release on Thursday.
With Saskatchewan ranking among the highest in COVID-19 case rates across Canada (second in the past week, and second in the past 14 days behind only Quebec, fourth overall in case rate), being able to return to the rink for hockey games by March’s end “is looking bleak,” the statement read.
“This certainly was not the news that the [Sask. Hockey Association], nor all other winter sports was expecting,” Kelly McClintock, general manager of Sask. Hockey said in a statement.
Ken Dueck from the provincial government’s Business Response Team said there would be “no consideration of return to play (games) for at least four weeks and that a return to game play is unlikely to happen before the end of March.”
