Saturday’s recreation between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Tampa Bay Lightning at AMALIE Enviornment in Tampa has been postponed on account of Hurricane Milton’s results on the area, the NHL introduced Thursday.
The sport will probably be made up on a date to be introduced.
The sport was set to be the house opener for the Lightning and the second of a home-and-home with the Hurricanes.
After the Lightning’s last preseason recreation in opposition to the Nashville Predators on Monday was canceled, the crew was pressured to evacuate to Raleigh, North Carolina, forward of Friday’s season opener in opposition to the Hurricanes.
Two weeks in the past plenty of Lightning gamers skilled property harm after Hurricane Helene affected the realm.
“We barely recovered from the final [hurricane] earlier than it begins once more,” mentioned Lightning captain Victor Hedman. “It’s robust, however we’ve nonetheless obtained to arrange for Friday. … It’s clearly arduous, however we’ve obtained to be enterprise once we’re on the rink. However it’s going to be worse for these people who find themselves going to be affected.”
Hurricane Milton has already affected the sports activities world in Florida. The Jacksonville Jaguars introduced their flight to London for Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bears will go away later than initially deliberate. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers determined to fly out to New Orleans sooner than scheduled forward of Milton making landfall. The faculty soccer recreation between Memphis and South Florida in Tampa was pushed again from Friday to Saturday afternoon.
The roof at Tropicana Discipline, house of MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, was rapidly destroyed on Wednesday. Luckily, not one of the “important personnel” within the stadium had been injured and the crew mentioned it can take time to evaluate everything of the harm.
“Over the approaching days and weeks, we count on to have the ability to assess the true situation of Tropicana Discipline,” the Rays mentioned in an announcement. “Within the meantime, we’re working with regulation enforcement to safe the constructing. We ask to your persistence at the moment, and we encourage those that can to donate to organizations in our group which are helping these straight impacted by these storms.”
Officers mentioned that at least 10 individuals died in Florida as tornadoes touched down from Hurricane Milton. Over 3 million houses and enterprise are with out energy as Milton was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Thursday.
