The sweeping outbreaks of COVID-19 continue, this time with the Nashville Predators and Detroit Red Wings. The Predators have announced that six players and six staff members have been placed in the COVID protocol. Mikael Granlund, Ryan Johansen, Matt Luff, Michael McCarron, Philip Tomasino, and Ben Harpur are now unavailable for the team, along with head coach John Hynes, assistants Dan Lambert and Todd Richards, and goaltending coach Ben Vanderklok.
For now, Nashville is still scheduled to take on the Colorado Avalanche tomorrow night. Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff tweets that the team is preparing to make the necessary recalls from the AHL (including coaches) to play.
Not to be outdone, the Red Wings have announced that Robby Fabbri and Michael Rasmussen have entered the protocol. Both players were in the lineup last night against the New York Islanders.
The Red Wings are scheduled to take on the Carolina Hurricanes tomorrow, a game that was in doubt after yesterday’s postponement. That doubt has been cleared up, at least for now, as the Hurricanes did not have any further positive tests today. Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic tweets that the plan is for Carolina to play short two skaters, given how tight they are to the cap ceiling.
The NHL appears ready to push through these outbreaks as best they can, hoping to not disrupt the schedule for the entire league.
Can’t wait for Beijing!!!!! Nothing like a 2 month “stay” in the original petrie dish.
Hope everyone gets healthy and safe.
Youre dumb.
What was dumb about that? He spoke the truth.
These “protocals” are causing some very uneven matchups, to say the least.
Nashville lost six players and six coaches today? With another round of testing sure to happen before the game, colorado should be preparing to play the admirals. I can’t see how Nashville can field a team by puck drop tomorrow