The Nationwide Hockey League will reimplement taxi squads and different roster revisions because the league struggles with COVID-19 outbreaks, The Related Press reported.
In response to the brand new provisions, any membership is allowed to have a taxi squad of as much as six gamers and might make emergency recollects to the minor league if COVID-19 absences would trigger anybody to play and not using a full lineup.
A workforce that’s low on accessible gamers can deliver up a participant from the American Hockey League, based on the AP. Emergency recollects may also be fabricated from gamers with wage cap hits as much as $1 million, a rise of the earlier $850,000 restrict.
Gamers on the workforce’s taxi squads can even depend as being within the minors for cap functions as gamers might be positioned on taxi squads for as much as 20 days, the AP reported.
League deputy commissioner Invoice Daly confirmed the brand new roster guidelines in an e-mail to the newswire on Sunday.
This comes amid the league asserting final week that it’ll pause the 2021-22 common season by Dec. 26.
The NHL additionally postponed cross-border video games for every week as a number of golf equipment are at present coping with COVID-19 outbreaks.
The league together with its gamers union have agreed that they won’t take part in the upcoming Beijing Olympics as a consequence of COVID-19 issues.
The brand new provisions will take impact not less than till the league’s All-Star break in February, the AP famous.
