After waiting almost two weeks to resume their 2019-20 National Basketball League of Canada season, the St. John’s Edge are going to have to wait a bit longer.
The Edge, who last played Jan. 8, announced today that games scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at Mile One Centre against the Sudbury Five have been cancelled, citing the state of emergency created by the weekend winter storm that lambasted eastern Newfoundland, as well the Five’s inability to fly to Newfoundland in time to begin the series.
The Five had originally been scheduled to fly out of Toronto Monday night, but that flight — as were all commercial flights to St. John’s — was cancelled
Edge head coach Steve Marcus said his Sudbury counterpart, Logan Stutz, who is also the general manager of the Five (5-5), had been looking at the possibility of rebooking to travel on game-day Tuesday, even if it had meant using multiple flights to relay the players to Newfoundland.
But that didn’t pan out.
It means the next scheduled games for the Edge (4-4) are Friday and Saturday, when they are to host the Halifax Hurricanes at Mile One Centre.
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