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2020-2021 NHL Thread

Bender said:
CarltonTheBear said:
I know every team has a compressed schedule and all that but I just looked at what Vancouver has for the rest of the year when they return next week and man it's nuts.

3 games in 4 days
day off
3 games in 4 days
day off
3 games in 4 days
day off
3 games in 4 days
2 games in 5 days... big break here
3 games in 4 days
day off
back to back
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What's the point of this? It seems cruel at this point.
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They can't even use their AHL team to bolster their roster.  Utica is in the US so their players would all have to quarantine for at least a week before they could play.  They may not even have enough players to dress a full roster.
 
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It's not a good scenario. Grubauer from Colorado tested positive. Robertson is on the list. The Marlies are shutdown. This could get bad really fast and as much as it would ruin a chance at the cup, I'm more concerned about the players and their families. It's only hockey right?
 
I hope no one dies because of this. I also wouldn?t mind if the opposing teams just withheld participation from this farce.
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Heroic Shrimp said:
CarltonTheBear said:
They're set to play a back-to-back in 2 days. This is insane.
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Matthews gonna break Sittler's record on Saturday against Vancouver.
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Nevermind, McDavid is going to break it on Friday against Vancouver first.
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If they play. I don't even think they have a full team yet and they may not
 
Vancouver met with the NHLPA last night.  I think they are going to protest playing this weekend.

They still have 7 players on the COVID List:
Jalen Chatfield; Alex Edler; Jayce Hawryluk; Nils Hoglander; Zack MacEwen; Nate Schmidt; Jake Virtanen

That would maybe give them a full roster and potentially a few more guys coming off COVID protocol before tomorrow but not getting into practice. 

I just can't see how the NHLPA is ok with this. I also don't know what the solution is at this point.  You could maybe batch the Ottawa games at the end of the schedule to move things around but hypothetically Vancouver still has a shot at the playoffs and if they went on a miracle run you would still be delaying the playoffs by quite a bit if those games still had playoff implications.

Selfishly I kind of want to see Matthews just put up a stupid number of goals playing an exhausted and out of shape Canucks team on Saturday but they have no business playing.
 
I get that it's difficult because Vancouver is still technically in the playoff race and the league really wants/needs them to complete all their games from a broadcast revenue perspective, but there has to be a better way to handle this. If nothing else, push the games this Friday and Saturday into the slots where they play Ottawa, and move those two Ottawa games to the end of the season. If Vancouver is still in the playoff race by then, they've earned the opportunity. If not, and the 4 playoff teams are set early enough, you have the playoffs going as Vancouver and Ottawa play out the string. That way, at least you can hopefully avoid the North division playoffs starting a week later than everyone else. There'd still be a few days they'd have to delay things, but you can do that across the league, or deal with it as series get wrapped up.

It's not perfect, but it's better than what they're currently doing.
 
Has anyone come out and said how this outbreak got started? Put asid the canucks players that may still be recovering, wouldn?t the opposing players have reservations skating around and smashing into each other and sharing the same air? It just takes one of them to spread it to another team.
 
Joe S. said:
Has anyone come out and said how this outbreak got started? Put asid the canucks players that may still be recovering, wouldn?t the opposing players have reservations skating around and smashing into each other and sharing the same air? It just takes one of them to spread it to another team.
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I have to think that there's a mechanism with the PA for a grievance...or even from the Leafs ownership/management who don't want anything to screw around with their hopeful deep run.
 
Joe S. said:
Has anyone come out and said how this outbreak got started? Put asid the canucks players that may still be recovering, wouldn?t the opposing players have reservations skating around and smashing into each other and sharing the same air? It just takes one of them to spread it to another team.
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I don't think anything was ever confirmed (nor will it) but there were rumbling of Gaudette being "Patient zero".
 
L K said:
Joe S. said:
Has anyone come out and said how this outbreak got started? Put asid the canucks players that may still be recovering, wouldn?t the opposing players have reservations skating around and smashing into each other and sharing the same air? It just takes one of them to spread it to another team.
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I don't think anything was ever confirmed (nor will it) but there were rumbling of Gaudette being "Patient zero".
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Chicago must be thrilled.
 
A friend in B.C. suggested that the game on Saturday will be bumped to Sunday.

If that is the case -- or even if the game goes on Saturday -- my initial thought was that those meetings with the P.A. and Miller sounding off was for the Canucks to buy just two extra days?  Odd.  I'd have expected them wanting another 7 to 10 days to catch back up to speed. 
 
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