<|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|>
The players being careless is a possibility, but it could also be due to issues with the arena or venue, lack of adequate precautions, or simply because the games are not seen as being critical for the teams yet, so the cancellations or postponements aren't viewed as an urgent situation. It is possible that the teams and the league have guidelines and plans in place to prevent these cancellations, but given the unpredictable situation with COVID-19, they may not always be successful.