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The outbreak of the coronavirus has changed a lot about how we live our lives, and the relationship between sports and media is no exception. Pre-submitted questions were read on the live chat to players, who answered from their domiciles that ranged from Scottsdale to Ontario. The foursome — Edmonton star Connor McDavid, Vancouver’s Bo Horvat, Calgary defenseman Mark Giordano and the Coyotes’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson — sifted through the different ways the NHL could go about getting back on the ice, which is sure to result in the season going far later than originally scheduled. The NHL paused on March 12. The four had different perspectives, if for no other reason than their respective spots in the standings. McDavid’s Oilers and Giordano’s Flames held divisional playoff spots at the time of the season pause. Horvat’s Canucks and Ekman-Larsson’s Coyotes were out of playoff spots entirely. It’s unclear whether the league could feasibly play more regular season games, depending on how long the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the sport. Arizona still had 12 games left when the season stopped, but some have suggested skipping the rest of the regular season. One suggestion gaining popularity holds that a 24-team playoff be conducted out of fairness to the bubble teams. “In a perfect world, you want to play the regular season out and let it play out, so whoever gets in gets in,” Giordano said. “But I don’t think realistically we’re going to have that time, so the best one I think I’ve heard is — you can’t eliminate teams who are out on points percentage or stuff like that — I think you go 12 and 12 and more teams get in this year, maybe a couple byes at the top and play it out.” Giordano said it would be challenging to go from not playing at all to jumping straight into the playoffs. Even a couple games before the playoffs, he said, could be beneficial. “Either go by points percentage or play some more regular season games,” Horvat said. “Obviously to make it completely fair, you’d want to play regular season games and have more games to get in. But if we’re going to start playoffs right away, [then determine the teams] by [points] percentage and I think that would put us in. But it’s tough to make that call, that’s for sure.” As Horvat said, the Canucks would be in the playoffs if the NHL were to resume and go straight to a postseason, as long as the league determined the playoff teams by points percentage. Just using point total that’s irrespective to games played, the Canucks would be one spot out of the Wild Card. The Coyotes are fifth in the Wild Card race, meaning they still had more work to do in the regular season if they wanted to get into a playoff spot. “I think it’s only fair to start where we left off here,” Ekman-Larsson said. “I think it would be good for the playoffs, too, to get those games to really get going again and get into a playoff spot and be ready for a really good playoffs. I think that would benefit all of us. And like everybody else said, I think it’d be a really good playoffs because we’ve been getting a lot of rest and everybody’s going to be healthy when we get back.” Meanwhile, the Oilers are pretty firmly in a playoff spot for the time being. “I think they look pretty good right now,” McDavid joked about the standings. “But obviously … a fair season’s a full season. So if we can do that then that’s what we’d obviously prefer, but I don’t think we can just step into playoffs and Game 1, Calgary come to Edmonton and guys just run around and kill each other and haven’t played a game in two months.” Arizona Republic LOADED: 03.30.2020 1181886 Boston Bruins The trade deadline, of course, is an annual crapshoot. Every year, really only one GM truly attains his goal. But this year, every GM could be left with that empty feeling. NHL trade deadline deals could be much ado about nothing Boston Herald LOADED: 03.30.2020 By STEVE CONROY | March 29, 2020 at 5:30 a.m. There was some glimmer of hope that the NHL playoffs could be salvaged last week, though it came with the hard luck and disappointment for another group of athletes. With the International Olympic Committee’s decision to postpone the Summer Games in Japan, that will leave open dates for sports programming in the summer that NBC needs to fill. While the league, like every other business, is still flying blind as the world waits for the next development in this global crisis, it is still clinging to the hope that some semblance of a playoff can be played and lost revenues recouped while also keeping the integrity of the 2020-21 season intact. But that is just a dream, as distant and imperfect as it may be. The chances of this season being kaput are very real. And some teams will have taken their swing at the deadline plate for nothing. The Bruins, of course, went in big at the deadline, but their regrets may be few compared to that of other teams. The first deal GM Don Sweeney pulled the trigger on was the one that sent David Backes (retaining a quarter of Backes’ contract), defense prospect Axel Andersson and a first-round pick to the Anaheim Ducks for Ondrej Kase. Whether the trade could have happened without the impetus of the deadline is questionable, but Sweeney might very well do the deal again even if he had no playoffs for which to bolster his team.