Deputy commissioner Bill Daly said NHL players will be tested for the coronavirus daily if games start happening.

"We will have a rigorous daily testing protocol where players are tested every evening and those results are obtained before they would leave their hotel rooms the next morning, so we'll know if we have a positive test and whether the player has to self-quarantine himself as a result of that positive test," Daly said. "It's expensive, but we think it's really a foundational element of what we're trying to accomplish."

Each test costs approximately $125, the league says, and commissioner Gary Bettman estimated 25,000-35,000 will be needed to get through the playoffs -- a price tag, he concedes, of millions of dollars.