The NHL’s regular unofficially ended Saturday, and if all games hadn’t already been postponed since March 12, the Avalanche could have hosted the St. Louis Blues at the season finale for both teams in the Pepsi Center.

The sport likely could have had implications in identifying the Center Division winner and also Western Conference regular-season winner. The NHL’s “pause” began with the Blues (42-19-10) directing the Avs (42-20-8) by 2 factors (94-92), together with Colorado with a match in hand.

St. Louis had 11 remaining games, the Avs 12. The Central Division challenger has been Dallas, a 10 points behind Colorado with 13 games. The Western Conference challenger has been Vegas, together with 86 points and 11 games to go.

Bottom line: What was is exactly what it is. And what could have been an epic poem regular-season finale at Denver was not to be. Or it likely won’t go into the playoffs, and be in case the coronavirus pandemic continues to push the season to date back the league opts to ditch a number of them, or the games.

Obviously, this COVID-19 crisis can end the season .

The City of Calgary announced Friday that all public events have been through June 30, meaning the Calgary Flames aren’t eligible to play games until then. Additional NHL cities will issue similar public limitations if North American health specialists can t spot the conclusion of this outbreak.

Looking back, all we can do is speculate on what could have been. The Avalanche had finished first in the division and seminar? What team could Colorado open the playoffs from Wednesday or Thursday at the Pepsi Center?

Here’s exactly what the 16-team Stanley Cup mount May Have looked like:

Western Conference: No. 1 Avalanche vs. No. 8 Canucks (wild-card 2 ); No. 2 Golden Knights vs. No. 7 Predators (wild-card 1 ); Blues vs. Stars (Central Divison); Oilers vs. Canucks (Pacific Division).

Eastern Conference: No. 1 Bruins vs. No. 8 Islanders (wild-card 2 ); No. 2 Capitals vs. No. 7 Hurricanes (wild-card 1 ); Lightning vs. Maple Leafs (Atlantic Division); Flyers vs. Penguins (Metropolitan Division).

That could have been a fascinating first around, particularly in the state of Alberta (Edmonton vs. Calgary) and the state of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh).

Open letters from Martin Lind. Colorado Eagles proprietor Martin Lind is composing to his buddies and employees from all his business ventures in Northern Colorado — a lot of which are closed during the pandemic, including the Avalanche’s American Hockey League affiliate.

Lind said no layoffs are proposed within the hockey franchise or his development project just east of Interstate 25 in Loveland which contains a new and larger 10,000-seat hockey arena for the Eagles. Lind’s family immigrated to Windsor from Germany.

“My grandpa had been refused entry into the United States because he and his brother ” Lind wrote in his latest letter. “Those two boys made it back into Germanyback to American and discovered Windsor, Colorado, to return with their sisters and parents afterwards. My father was a premie born at the center of the Great Depression, at the center of the Dust Bowl, had no physician, no hospital, and had a heart defect that wasn’t discovered for 70 decades. 

“I think it s my destiny to be here right now and I welcome you to believe we are exactly where we are likely to be and we’ll overtime this storm and again become triumphant over hardship. ”

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