‘”Our players have been nothing but exemplary in their on-ice work ethic and competitiveness but also in their off-ice decision making and habits that they’ve lived their life,” Appert said. “So it’s an unfortunate situation, it happened at no fault of our players. We made decisions that we made in terms of postponing games out of abundance of caution, and to avoid a situation where we had a mass spread, either to us or to our opponents.”‘