It has been a harrowing day throughout North American professional sports with plenty of positive tests being identified, including in the NHL. The league released the following statement through their PR account on Twitter providing an update on their testing situation:
Since NHL Clubs were permitted to open their training facilities on June 8, all Players entering these facilities for voluntary training have been subject to mandatory testing for COVID-19. Through today, in excess of 200 Players have undergone multiple testing. A total of 11 of these Players have tested positive. All Players who have tested positive have been self-isolated and are following CDC and Health Canada protocols. The NHL will provide a weekly update on the number of tests administered to Players and the results of those tests. The League will not be providing information on the identity of the Players or their Clubs.
The current protocol is that players are tested once upon arriving in their club city and must test negative before they can take to the ice. Once that happened, they are tested a minimum of two times per week after that.
The league is currently in its second phase out of four in its Return to Play protocol with the third stage being the beginning of training camps and the fourth being the beginning of the play-in round or for the top four teams in each conference, a set of round robin games to determine postseason seeding. As things stand, it’s only in that final stage that full quarantining rules will be in effect. However, the final protocols are still being negotiated between the NHL and the NHLPA.
As bs fan I hate to say it but time to cancel the season
@mcase7187 – Might I suggest a minor correction for next time? Instead of “bs”, how about B’s ?
Usually do but it happens sorry to hurt your feelings
I don’t think you hurt his feelings so much as you described yourself as a fan of bull****.
@case7187 – @forwhomjoshbelltolls is right, you didn’t hurt my feelings, but the B’s alums might feel a little different…
I get it sorry for my comment you are right and as for the the B’s alums they won’t ever see it so I’m good on that front
Why must you cancel a season because of positive tests. Haven’t heard of any players being seriously ill. Read Matthews is asymptotic. People getting virus but not getting sick is no reason to shut down the world again. Treat a positive test like an injury. Stop with the fear. Get on with ours lives! Otherwise we will never be back to normal.
if players keep getting it they won’t want to play and risk getting it and passing it to their families plus the longer they wait to start the later next season will start and all the season afterwards
I’m also not sure how many players are out of the country that may not be able to return to the states
@mcase – That’s the whole point of the phase two process. Having players test positive now will allow them to be good to play once the phase four process is in place. If they continue to put this off indefinately, you’ll just be pushing off the inevitable of players testing positive.
Folks. We used to have chicken pocks parties in the 1970s when a kid in neighborhood got chicken pocks. Exposure doesn’t mean death. It doesn’t even mean illness. It means immunity or partial immunity. If you have a serious health condition then that doesn’t apply. But healthy state of the art athletes in their 20s are not dying from this or even seriously impacted. Stop listening to CNN!!!
Well said!