As expected, there have been more postponements around the league as a result of the sharp increase in players testing positive for COVID-19. The league announced that the Bruins and Predators have had their games postponed through the holiday break while three other contests this weekend have been postponed including tonight’s Canucks-Maple Leafs contest. A full summary of the postponed games by team from today’s announcement is as follows:
Arizona: Dec. 19 at Vancouver
Boston: Dec. 19 at Ottawa, Dec. 21 vs Carolina, Dec. 23 vs Colorado
Nashville: Dec. 19 at Carolina, Dec. 21 vs Winnipeg
Seattle: Dec. 19 vs Toronto
Toronto: Dec. 18 at Vancouver, Dec. 19 at Seattle
Vancouver: Dec. 18 vs Toronto, Dec. 19 vs Arizona
These postponements come on the heels of Calgary, Colorado, and Florida all having their games postponed yesterday through the holiday break plus tonight’s Boston-Montreal contest. No games have been rescheduled at this time.
The NHL has a window to withdraw their participation from the upcoming Olympics as a result of the outbreak that has hit the league now and with five teams currently out of action plus the Senators and Islanders having missed games earlier this season due to COVID, it will be interesting to see if they’re able to reschedule all of those games without needing to use the three-week break for the Olympics. The NHL can withdraw without financial penalty if the decision is made January 10th or earlier.
Time to shut it down!!!
Yep. Bunch of insanely healthy athletes are all vaccinated and none are sick. Shut it down.
There was a reporter on NHL Network yesterday saying there are a few who are sick, but they have minor symptoms, like that of a cold. Most don’t have symptoms. So they are essentially shutting down the league one team at a time due to a handful of colds. Utterly insane.
Still using those ‘super accurate’ tests that the CDC is going to stop using in a couple weeks due to their innacuracy.
Might as well lock yourself in a lead box during cold and flu season every year from here on out. Oh wait, I forgot, the flu doesn’t exist anymore.
Ya shut down the league for the next 7-14 days then let it buck after holidays and no Olympic break to make up for it
“Vaccine”
Interesting, isn’t it? These are locker rooms full of athletes and staff that are fully vaccinated and here we are facing the possibility of a shut down just like last year due to there being outbreaks all over the league.
It’s almost as if the vaccines don’t actually work to stop infection or slow the spread… at all. The same thing is happening in the NFL and College sports. I wonder just how much more people need to see before they realize this; wrt spread and infection, the vaccines are useless. Completely useless. You’re protecting no one else from anything by getting the shot. On the bright side, I’m sure all we need are more mandates. That’ll solve everything.
@seesh – More deaths attributed to the ‘rona this year when we’ve had the vax compared to last year when there was no vax. Kind of sums up what a sham this is.
Not sure why the Preds want to shut things down, they win with whoever they put in the lineup!
All these tests are showing is that someone has some type of virus in their system, even dead virus particles, not necessarily the covid virus. The league is shutting itself down due to head colds, if that.
15 days to slow the spread Oh wait. Already did that. Never mind
How’s about. Flatten the Curve? Crap. Tried that too.
The amount of people who lack basic logic astounds me. They’re not cancelling games because they’re that concerned about their players health (most are young, healthy and vaccinated) they’re cancelling games because while this looks bad let me tell you if the whole league catches it it would be a PR nightmare let alone if any player did get sick. The worst thing the NHL could do is appear to not take this seriously both for the sake of their players but also the fans who might not be as young, healthy, or vaccinated.
If the whole league caught it, they’d all be fine, and they’d keep playing games. At least the nfl is starting to test vaccinated players less because the players are tired of missing games while not being sick.
@josi…are you aware that vacc’ed can and do spread this wuhan flu, with many studies/numerous geographical locations showing higher frequency than non-vacc’ed?
Hannibal is right about one thing: this is about liability worries, not player safety. If the league had immunity from lawsuits such as the vaccine makers have been given, the league wouldn’t miss a beat.
So since the vaxxed can and do spread the disease how exactly are we going to vax our way out of this? Correct We aren’t.
If you’re worried about getting infected at a hockey game then don’t go. Don’t go to Walmart either. Or leave your house. Ever.