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.
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…