Duluth, MN, USA / 95 KQDS
Jan 22, 2021 9:23 PM
It’s one thing to talk about how a COVID issue and potential pause were practically inevitable. Just look around. Half the NCHC — Colorado College, Omaha, Denver, and now UMD — has endured some sort of COVID-related shutdown that caused games to be moved (so far, none have been officially lost).
So the bottom line was that this was probably going to happen. It happened to the UMD women’s hockey team. And both basketball teams.
(I should note that, while every one of UMD’s active winter sports teams has endured a pause due to COVID positives, the actual number of positive tests in each case has been quite small. The pauses have come as a result of necessary contact tracing around the positive tests. As much as we probably have grown to despise the phrase “out of an abundance of caution,” it’s appropriate here, as none of these shutdowns have come as the result of outbreaks of COVID within teams. Instead, they’ve happened to