More NHL games have been postponed, this time because of a COVID outbreak among the New Jersey Devils. At least the team’s next three games, including two against the Pittsburgh Penguins and one against the New York Rangers, have been postponed due to the COVID protocol. The Devils have ten players on the COVID Protocol Related Absences list today.
This makes 14 games that have been officially postponed during the first few weeks of the 2020-21 season. All of those contests were outside of the East Division, meaning this is the first disruption to the schedule for the Devils, Penguins, and Rangers.
The team’s training facilities have been closed to all players on the active roster effective immediately and will remain so until further notice. The league is continuing to review the Devils’ schedule. There could be further postponements beyond February 6, but at this point, only the next three games have been pushed.
That actually helps the Penguins. Gives the defense a little time to recover. Going to be a lot of games down the road, but given how few defensemen are currently healthy, I think the Pens would prefer it.
They can have Gudbranson back or even new friends like Mike Reilly or Brayden Coburn
Think North division will be done a week or 2 early compared to everyone else
Well then maybe each of those teams can practise playing some defence. It’s not great hockey to watch how bad most of the Canadian teams are defensively.