According to the information gathered by Grégory Beaud and Cyrill Pasche in Le Matin Dimanche, the most popular solution seems to be to postpone the start of the playoffs until March 17. This would give the teams at least a chance that the ban on events with more than 1,000 spectators will be no longer in effect and thus to minimize their financial loss.
CEO's like Daniel Villard (EHC Biel), Raphaël Berger (HC Fribourg-Gottéron), and Marc Lüthi (SC Bern) are not too optimistic that the ban will be lifted on March 15, but they all agree that playoffs without spectators are not really an option.
However, Villard also mentions that the teams are bound by a TV contract and not playing these games would have consequences. "For us, it makes a difference whether the games are postponed to later or whether there is a shortening of the playoffs," MySports' head of programming Steffi Buchli tells the SonntagsZeitung. She does, however, also doubt that the TV channel would profit from those ghost games in the long run.
