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The Ontario Hockey League, one of the top suppliers of talent for the NHL Draft, will not play this season due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus. We have worked tirelessly with the province and the chief medical officer of health (Dr. David Williams) for the past year on different scenarios and different windows of opportunity, but the reality is the conditions in Ontario have never been right to start and complete an uninterrupted, safe opportunity for players to showcase their skills, OHL commissioner David Branch said. We owe it to our players and their families to be definitive. We were committed to return and play this season, but our hopes and desires have been dashed by the cruel realities of COVID-19.