The
modifications include
relaxing restrictions regarding mask-wearing, testing, quarantining, team meetings, social gatherings and team traveling parties (players, coaches, management and staff).
An individual is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the final dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine. A team is considered fully vaccinated when 85 percent of the individuals in its traveling party are fully vaccinated.
"What
for fully vaccinated teams include:
-- Fully vaccinated individuals will no longer be required to wear masks in non-public areas at practice and game facilities.
-- Teams can resume holding team meetings and social gatherings with no requirement for fully vaccinated individuals to socially distance or wear masks, provided they are sufficiently distanced from unvaccinated individuals.
-- Fully vaccinated individuals may golf as a group.
-- Fully vaccinated individuals will be permitted to eat on flights and busses.
-- Fully vaccinated individuals may eat together at team meals outdoors with no limitation on group size and no requirements for masks or social distancing. They can also dine together indoors with no limitation on group size (and no requirements for masks or social distancing) if a separate section of the restaurant is secured away from the rest of the restaurants patrons and they are served by masked restaurant employees.
-- For postgame and practice meals, teams can provide buffet style meals serve by approved staff in a room reserved for fully vaccinated individuals. Team shall provide a separate meal room for unvaccinated individuals.
NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen contributed to this report
