The NHL could only escape for so long. Tonight the Ottawa Senators have announced that one of their players has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) and is in isolation. The player is experiencing mild symptoms.
According to Hailey Salvian and James Mirtle of The Athletic (subscription required), several Senators players are dealing with symptoms and awaiting test results. The report notes that the Senators team played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles just before the NHL shutdown, which had just hosted the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA, who have had four players test positive for COVID-19 in recent days.
The Senators announced that the team is now notifying anyone who has had close contact with the player in question—whose identity has not yet been revealed—and that the rest of the team has been asked to stay isolated.
This is the first NHL player to test positive for the disease.
If it was contracted in the Staples Center facilities, it shows just how important it was for both leagues to quickly suspend play. After the Senators played on March 11th, there was due another team—be it NHL or NBA—in one of the visiting locker rooms for each of the next 11 days. The Nets, Houston Rockets, Anaheim Ducks, New Orleans Pelicans, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Montreal Canadiens, Utah Jazz, Boston Bruins, Phoenix Suns, Vancouver Canucks and Arizona Coyotes were all on the schedule from March 12th through 22nd, not to mention the Los Angeles Kings, Clippers and Lakers who would all be sharing the playing surface.
Virus nor disease.
Covid19 is the disease caused by the virus, so disease isn’t inaccurate
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Which leads me to this…why can’t we edit our comments? It’s the only app in the world that won’t allow us to.
Siri makes us look like idiots.
Especially because the D in COVID-19 stands for disease.
I try to communicate in an intelligent way but have fat fingers. Sometimes I reply to my own comments just so I don’t look like an illiterate. So yes we need the edit feature.
this ^
As of last week I was able with save feature on comments , cause not that I do have fat fingers , am sometimes bad speller and try to remember to proofread my comments, agreed we do need THIS > feature available to us.
See? COVID-19 is now taking a backseat to being able to edit our own comments. We (or at least some of us) are also getting errant emails for replies for tertiary (and lower) comments directed at the secondary/tertiary/etc comments to an original post.
It’s a very good point, though, to be able to edit our own replies, not just within a five-minute time frame, but whenever you want, much like YouTube.
Love to be wrong, but…the season is gone.
There you go being a Doubting Thomas, @forwhomjoshbelltolls. With each passing day, though, that outcome is racing to come true, unfortunately. Hopefully, Bettman & Co. don’t come up with a half-assed idea of a Cup winner, not to mention the awards that are hanging in the lurch. This could be a year of asterisks…