While it appears the NHL and NHLPA will soon officially be pulling the plug on participating in the upcoming Olympics, it doesn’t appear as if All-Star Weekend will be doomed to a similar fate. At least, not yet. ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski notes that at this point, there haven’t been any substantial discussions about whether or not to delay or cancel that event which is scheduled for February 4th and 5th in Vegas. Depending on what happens over the coming weeks when it comes to further postponements on the schedule, the league may need to utilize those dates for makeup games but after not having the event last season, it’s one they’ll likely try to keep intact if they can.
More from around the hockey world:
- Prior to their game against Vegas tonight, Lightning head coach Jon Cooper was placed in COVID protocol, relays Eduardo A. Encina of the Tampa Bay Times (Twitter link). Tampa Bay was one of the few teams left that didn’t have anyone in COVID protocol before this placement.
- The World Juniors will have considerably fewer fans than originally planned for following an announcement that Alberta will be limiting capacity to 50% at both arenas. There is no timeline for when those measures will be revisited and they will also affect the Flames and Oilers once their games resume although Edmonton comes out of the holiday break with a six-game road trip due to the tournament.
- The Penguins and winger Bryan Rust held extension talks but have shelved them after being unable to find common ground in talks, reports Pittsburgh Hockey Now’s Dan Kingerski. It has been a tough season for the 29-year-old who has been limited to just a dozen appearances due to injuries after two strong years that saw him pot 49 goals in 111 games which doesn’t help his case as he looks to land a sizable raise on his current $3.75MM AAV. Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mentions that Rust skated with the team in Monday – albeit in a non-contact jersey – which suggests that he could be back not long after play resumes following the holiday break.
Love Rust, but it makes no sense to extend him. This was true before Rodrigues’ emergence, but especially true now.
Also, you are going to shut down early for Xmas break because of concerns about how transmissible the Omicron variant is…BUT…you are going to bring people from every team into one place and then send them back to all 32 teams?
Man, the sponsors must really love that All Star Game because that is some insipid lunacy.
No it’s not lunacy josh. It’s called politics and hypocrisy (which are synonyms). You start seeing it too? Welcome to the red pill club!
Fun Fact- The term “red pill” was chosen for The Matrix by it’s later to become transgender director because the hormone pill used to transition from male to female was red.
SO…when all you incels say you have been “red pilled” well…congrats on your new life, Danielle. Be proud.
Haha fun. The point still stands. Nice try to ignore it and change subject just like all you bleach headed woke degenerates do.
Seems like those red pills are making a bit hormonal and emotional, Dani.
No offence danny but what Josh is saying is science can sometimes be wrong when a person is born in the wrong genders body but is never wrong about anything else… Ever.
On the other side. Josh what conservatives are saying is boys is boys and girls is girls. It’s science soy boy. But dont trust covid19 science.
@forwhomjoshbelltolled three times a charm. C’mon dude spit out some nonesense one more time. Entertaining…
Conservatives hate science… until they are the ones on the table fighting for their lives, like when the orange blob or Chris Christie almost died of Covid and were given top of the science treatment.
Then once their lives are saved they go back to making fun of the nerds.
this thread is utter refuse…