SUNRISE, Fla. When the NHL season was put on hold back in March, Chris Driedger and the rest of his Florida Panthers teammates were in Dallas preparing for a game they would not end up playing.

As the days off turned into weeks, Driedger decided to go back to the minors.

Sort of.

Driedger still had an apartment under lease in Springfield, Mass., where he had started this season with the Panthers AHL affiliate.

Instead of staying in a mostly empty hotel in Fort Lauderdale one without a kitchen or his girlfriend Driedger packed up what little he had and headed north.

So, Driedger has been spending his quarantine time in western Massachusetts, doing online yoga classes and heading outdoors for hikes when the weather is nice enough to do so.

If the Panthers are allowed back into the team training facility in Coral Springs in the coming weeks, Driedger says he will waste no time getting...

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