Ontario Hockey League cancels its season amid COVID-19 pandemic and extended stay-at-home order
The Ontario Hockey League has canceled its season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision Tuesday means the OHL will be the only one of Canada s three major junior hockey leagues not to hold a 2020-21 season.
The league says it reached an agreement on a return-to-play plan with the Ontario government earlier this month, but a recently extended stay-at-home order and increasing cases of COVID-19 across the province made it impossible to have a season.
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The league says the plan was to hold a shortened season in hub cities, a model used by some divisions in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League.
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