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A season unlike any other...or not?

A season unlike any other...or not?

Hosting a hockey season across 6 countries and 8 time zones is a challenge on a good day. Try organizing the KHL championship during a pandemic.

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Gillian Kemmerer
Mar 28, 2021
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In 1919, a pandemic incorrectly labeled the Spanish flu derailed the Stanley Cup Finals.

It began in the winter of 1918, and it’s a story you know all too well. A disease spread primarily through human contact—whose main symptoms included coughing, sneezing and high fever—was ripping across oceans at lightning pace. One-third of the world’s population b…

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