And then there were eight. The NHL has announced another postponement, this time between the Seattle Kraken and Arizona Coyotes. The game tomorrow night will be rescheduled for later this season, after another Seattle player tested positive for coronavirus. As Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times writes, the team abruptly canceled practice today–Yanni Gourde had already taken the ice–as they waited for confirmation on the positive result.
The Kraken canceled practice yesterday as well after Carson Soucy entered the protocol. They will now be silent through the holiday break after their Thursday game against the Calgary Flames was already postponed. Seattle is set to resume in a game against the Vancouver Canucks on December 27.
The Coyotes meanwhile can stay home to welcome in the Tampa Bay Lightning for Thursday night, their last game before the holiday break.
Forty-four games have been postponed this season. Eight remain on the NHL schedule this week.
might just be best to pause for now overall and wait for this league-wide outbreak to run it’s course at this point.
This is a smart precaution and judging by the amount of positive cases in NHL/NFL this week- along with the postponements- i hope that we as a society have not lost our respect for this pandemic and how easily the virus can be spread. Don’t let your guard down now, please.
Let’s go Brandon