<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
first of all, let me be honest and say that i am no longer a big fan of the national league fan. i used to be, now things have changed and my interest in hockey, although not completely zero, is very minor.  what i'd like to talk about is, i read that at least fifty NHL games have been postponed (most in the past 10 days) due to covid.  this really surprised me. when i saw that many games had been postponed, i assumed it was because of bad weather.  how can this be? are the players really that careless? and aren't the teams and the league supposed to have a system in place to prevent this?
<|assistant|>
It is disappointing to see that fifty games have been postponed. The NHL is a professional league, and it is expected that players would take precautions and show up for games unless something catastrophic were to happen such as with a pandemic. The NHL has to have a contingency plan in place for games to reschedule when postponed, which includes things such as bad weather, travel restrictions, player/team availability, etc.