The announcement comes fewer than 24 hours after the league and the NHL Players Association (NHLPA)
jointly announced an update to the league's COVID-19 policies
, noticably making a change to stop testing asyomptomatic players following the league's All-Star Break. COVID-19-related issues were the reason for most of the team's seven postponed games.
New Game Dates:
The following games have been moved to the new dates (all times Eastern):
To recap, the Canes will now play on the following dates:
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Month-By-Month:
The new game dates provide the Canes with the following amount of games during the remaining months of the regular season:
Bigger Picture:
Starting Friday the Canes will play 46 games in 98 days to round out their regular season schedule.
They will have two four-game home stretches during the March, the most consecutive dates they'll play in a row at PNC Arena (March 4-12, 18-24).
The newly rescheduled four road games in February (February 7-12) is the longest stint they have away from home the rest of the way.
Ticketing Info:
If you held tickets to the game originally scheduled to be played on Sunday, December 19 vs. Nashville, those same tickets will now be valid for Friday, February 18.
If you held tickets to Monday, December 27 vs. Florida, those same tickets will now be available for Wednesday, February 16.
Individual game ticket buyers who are not able to attend the game on the rescheduled date should go through their original point of purchase to request refunds. Season Ticket Members who would prefer to exchange their tickets out of the game can do so within their Account Manager. Tickets which have been forwarded to someone else are still valid for the rescheduled date, or they can be returned to the original buyer for exchange. Tickets and price points purchased during the Black Friday sale will only be honored for the rescheduled game and will not be transferable to any other games.
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