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Live from North Dakota, in an arena devoid of fans, it’s the Stanley Cup final featuring the 23rd- and 24th-place teams in the NHL.

This is what we could be watching if Gary Bettman gets his wish on completing the 2019-20 season. And, if we’re still not still hoarding toilet paper and self-isolating by then, we could be watching it when the following season is scheduled to begin.

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Of course, the start of the 2020-21 season is a problem for another day.

Right now, the NHL commissioner is doing everything he can to complete this year on time. “Flexible and agile” are the words Bettman used in an interview with Fox Business Network on Wednesday to describe the league’s post-COVID-19 approach. He might as well have said wild and wacky.

If hockey is going to be played again this season, it’s going to be unlike anything we’ve seen before.

If you thought the Firefly Fun House Match that the WWE staged between John Cena and Bray Wyatt at Wrestlemania was a head trippy bit of nonsense, then get a whiff of some of the ideas that have come across Bettman’s desk since the league paused operations on March 12.