OPINION
- STEVEN ELLIS: NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly shares next steps for NHL players during league pause (The Hockey News)
- JARED CLINTON: If the NHL follows NBA’s lead, don’t expect to see hockey until at least mid-April (The Hockey News)
- ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN: Some of the biggest questions the NHL faces after pausing its season (Sportsnet)
- ERIC FRANCIS: Flames' Andersson agrees with season pause, unfair to play without fans (Sportsnet)
- FRANK SERAVALLI: NHL urges players to ‘self-quarantine’ to help save season (TSN)
- HELENE ELLIOTT: Gary Bettman says NHL can find ‘credible’ way to finish regular season and award Stanley Cup (Los Angeles Times)
- STEVE GREENBERG: In the strange stillness of a sports shutdown, we’ll do the best we can to give fans their fill (Chicago Sun-Times)
- KEN CAMPBELL: Notes from a wild week in California with the Ottawa Senators (Ottawa Citizen)
- PAUL FRIESEN: Jets should step up for arena workers (Winnipeg Sun)
- SID HARTMAN: The sports world has stopped before, but it always returns (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- PATRICK JOHNSTON: Plenty of questions, few answers as Canucks head into coronavirus 'pause' (Vancouver Province)
- MARK MADDEN: This sports shutdown stinks, but greed will bring the games back (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- BRUCE ARTHUR: The suspension of sports for the coronavirus is bigger, much bigger, than a pause (Toronto Star)
- MICHAEL ARACE: If NHL season resumes, Jackets can turn a negative to a real positive (Columbus Dispatch)
- MIKE McINTYRE: Jets' page-turner of a season in limbo (Winnipeg Free Press)
- BRUCE GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators instructed to keep their distance as NHL pause gets underway (Ottawa Sun)
- STU COWAN: Echoes of 1919 — Spanish flu put end to Canadiens' Cup run (Montreal Gazette)
- SAM CARCHIDI: Passionate Flyers fans spoke from the heart, but NHL had to stop season (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- LUKE DeCOCK: John Forslund one of two Hurricanes staffers possibly exposed to coronavirus (Raleigh News & Observer)
- PAUL ZEISE: We're about to find out how important sports really are (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- KEVIN McGRAN: A one-game Stanley Cup final? Playoffs for everyone? Here’s what the post-coronavirus NHL might look like (Toronto Star)
- TERRY JONES: Oilers leave Rogers Place staff in limbo during NHL pause (Edmonton Sun)
- CHRIS JOHNSTON: As NHL announces ‘pause’ on 2019-20 season, next steps remain unclear (Sportsnet)
- ERIC FRANCIS: Ken King’s firm handshake and dedication were driving force behind Flames (Sportsnet)
- FRANK SERAVALLI: The day the rinks went dark (TSN)
- GREG WYSHYNSKI: When coronavirus cancels your hockey season (ESPN)
- CATHAL KELLY: Sports are the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel (Globe & Mail)
- PAUL SULLIVAN: As the sports world goes dark, what will we do? (Chicago Inquirer)
- DIETER KURTENBACH: No time for fun and games — why sports needed to be shut down in the wake of coronavirus (San Jose Mercury News)
- ED WILLES: Putting a 'pause' on the world of sports is the right thing to do (Vancouver Province)
- MIKE SIELSKI: The Flyers’ shot at a Stanley Cup is now in jeopardy, thanks to a vile little bug of an opponent (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- STEVE GREENBERG: Coronavirus brings the sports world to a screeching halt (Chicago Sun-Times)
- TOM KEEGAN: Coronavirus: Why sports have no choice but to hit pause button (Boston Herald)
- KEVIN SHERRINGTON: Coronavirus putting sports world on hold may be right call, but that doesn’t make the reality any less harsh (Dallas Morning News)
- MICHAEL ARACE: If NHL season resumes, Jackets can turn a negative to a real positive (Columbus Dispatch)
- MIKE HARRINGTON: It's unfathomable: The games have stopped and we don't know when they'll be back (Buffalo News)
- BEN KUZMA: Silver lining to season suspension is Canucks' charity success (Vancouver Province)
- STEVE SIMMONS: When do NHL and NBA return? Truth is, we don't know (Toronto Sun)
- ROB TYCHKOWSKI: Edmonton Oilers, like everyone else, coming to grips with NHL shutdown (Edmonton Sun)
- DAN SHAUGHNESSY: Suddenly, coronavirus wipes almost all of our sports off the landscape (Boston Globe)
- LARRY BROOKS: Potential revenue-enhancing plan could rescue NHL (New York Post)
- MARCUS HAYES: How NBA, NHL, NCAA, MLB should resume from coronavirus hiatus (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- JERRY BREWER: Sports provide a refuge, but they blurred our vision on coronavirus (Washington Post)
- PATRICK JOHNSTON: Tick tock — the last 48 hours of the Canucks' season (Vancouver Province)
- KEVIN GORMAN: Shutdown of the sports world showed us that leaders are not to be trusted (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: NHL was left with no choice but to suspend the regular season (Boston Globe)
- GREG COTE: Miami sports now engulfed, gutted by coronavirus threat — but the precaution is justified (Miami Herald)
- BOB WOJNOWSKI: Sadly, the games had to stop before the healing could begin (Detroit News)
- STU COWAN: Gary Bettman convinces NHL owners to 'pause' season (Montreal Gazette)
- BRUCE GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators head home to play waiting game after NHL season is put on hold (Ottawa Sun)
- DAVE FESCHUK: Sure, they might be just fun and games, but we’ll miss them nonetheless (Toronto Star)
- MIKE McINTYRE: Sports world goes dark (Winnipeg Free Press)
- TERRY JONES: NHL puts pause on regular season due to COVID-19 outbreak (Edmonton Sun)
- KEN CAMPBELL: Why are Montreal Canadiens allowing Cole Caufield to decide his future? (The Hockey News)
- RYAN KENNEDY: New NHL coaches association initiative shines the spotlight on women (The Hockey News)
- STEVEN ELLIS: Help -- and a reason for optimism -- is on the way for the Los Angeles Kings (The Hockey News)
- MARK SPECTOR: Oilers hopeful practice will fix issues after being outplayed again (Sportsnet)
- GREG WYSHYNSKI: Should the NHL change the Stanley Cup playoffs? (ESPN)
- IAIN MacINTYRE: Busy Canucks schedule making it tough for potential Brock Boeser return (Sportsnet)
- CHRIS JOHNSTON: Maple Leafs trying to focus on jobs, not coronavirus possibilities (Sportsnet)
- ERIC ENGELS: Kotkaniemi, Canadiens must hope for quick recovery from spleen injury (Sportsnet)
- DAN SHAUGHNESSY: Don’t use coronavirus to close locker rooms to media forever (Boston Globe)
- ED GRANEY: Coronavirus ban on media access should also include fans (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- SEAN KEELER: Joe Sakic bought the groceries, but Jared Bednar made Avs tasty (Denver Post)
- BRUCE ARTHUR: Professional sports could be walking into danger while hoping the coronavirus goes away (Toronto Star)
- SHAWN WINDSOR: Detroit Red Wings deserve to be ignored. But here's why fans won't (Detroit Free Press)
- MARK MADDEN: There’s no easy fix for Penguins, but here are some things to try (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- MICHAEL SILVERMAN: In unprecedented joint statement, MLB, NHL, NBA, and MLS will close doors to media because of coronavirus (Boston Globe)
- MIKE HARRINGTON: It was a weird day and night -- and not just because Sabres finally won (Buffalo News)
- KEN WARREN: Will NHL follow tennis tour in cancelling games? (Ottawa Citizen)
- KEVIN McGRAN: The locker rooms have been closed across North America — what’s next for the NHL and other pro leagues? (Toronto Star)
- RON COOK: In wake of Penguins’ lost weekend, Mike Sullivan remains a terrific coach (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- MIKE McINTYRE: Sports world not immune to coronavirus concerns, uncertainty (Winnipeg Free Press)
- TIM BENZ: Trying to figure out how to make Penguins ‘connections’ work again (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)