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The league and players are still working to finalize a return-to-play agreement that would entail a 24-team playoff to award the Stanley Cup. It's understood that players, coaches and staff would be quarantined from the general public for the duration of the playoffs and tested regularly.
Until arriving in one of those cities as early as July 23 or 24, players and their families are still out in the real world and face the risk of exposure.
''You have a whole bunch of people in close proximity to each other for prolonged periods of time, they may be traveling together exposed to other individuals that you don't know who they've been exposed to,'' Atrium Health medical director of infection prevention Katie Passaretti said. ''Any time you're bringing groups together and then sending them back out into the world, there's potential for further spread if one of those individuals was asymptotically infected or early in the stages of symptomatic infection.''