The Nova Scotia government announced Thursday an easing of the COVID-19 restrictions that were put in place in the Halifax area last week. Those restrictions will loosen on Friday and will allow the Halifax Mooseheads to resume game action.
The province originally said the restrictions could be in place until March 26, so this is certainly welcome news.
With the Mooseheads back, the Cape Breton Eagles have someone to play - and the Charlottetown Islanders, with PEI moving out of lockdown mode, will be joining them just like the good ol' days (a.k.a. a couple weeks ago).
From a QMJHL news release:
With the Nova Scotia Health Authorities easing COVID-19 restrictions earlier this morning, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announced today a schedule for the upcoming two weeks that includes home games for its Nova Scotian teams.
The league has scheduled four games involving the three teams for next week. All four games will be played in Sydney or Halifax.
With those three teams back and the three New Brunswick clubs returning next week (fingers crossed), the big question becomes when does the Atlantic Bubble reopen? It's certainly possible some sort of arrangement is worked out to allow the teams to travel in-and-out of the three provinces without needing to quarantine... but it's difficult to feel too optimistic about that scenario given what the three New Brunswick clubs went through over the past several weeks.
CBC New Brunswick reports that Premier Blaine Higgs said that talks about reopening the Atlantic Bubble will likely happen in April.
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