"I obviously wish I could be there too," Hedman said on a video call arranged by the NHL on Monday. "You want to be close to your family at this time, but you just have to make sure it's safe enough to get back there."
Some European NHL players have returned to their home countries while the season is on pause because of the concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, but Hedman and Barkov are still in Florida.
Hedman is self-quarantined at home in Tampa with his wife and three dogs, including two dogs they're fostering. Most of his family is in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, which is six hours north of Stockholm. His brother, Johan, lives in southern Sweden.
Barkov is self-quarantined with his mother, Olga, at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, but the rest of his family and friends are in Tampere, Finland, which is about three hours north of Helsinki.
"We might have one or two cases [of coronavirus] up there [in Ornskoldsvik]," Hedman said. "So they've been kind of lucky so far, but they're still very, very careful with what they do and trying to stay inside as much as they can, social distancing."