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Yeah, I wondered what they were gonna do when they got back from their road trip. The games are already postponed due to the attendance restriction, and they still have so, so many guys on the Covid list across both rosters. Makes sense just to send everybody home for a bit and wait for some of this to pass.The Habs and Laval Rocket are pausing all activity until January 6.
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Yeah, at least he's on a cheap, one-year contract. Edmonton is going to be paying Neal until 2025.
This is such a great story. I hadn't heard about it until now.If anyone has been on hockey Twitter today, you’ve probably seen this story. The Vancouver Canucks assistant equipment manager was trying to find out the identity of a woman who was sitting being their bench at Climate Pledge Arena. Not because he wanted to date her, but she had seen a mole on the back of his neck and banged on the glass to get his attention and had a note on her phone that he had cancer. Sure enough, it was a Type 2 melanoma. Within hours of the tweet from the Canucks, she had been identified.
Kraken fan lauded for her life-changing message to Canucks equipment manager during game
Kraken fan Nadia Popovici was the subject of a viral search Saturday morning after she notified Canucks equipment manager Brian "Red" Hamilton that a mole on his neck might be cancerous during a game in October — and saved his...
As usual, there's a great writeup in the Athletic.
Makes sense. That two week cushion they got from bailing on the Olympics only buys so many open dates. Sooner or later something has to give.In a radio interview yesterday, Bill Daly said the middle of January is about as far out as the league can go with postponements of games in Canada.
Daly doesn't expect many more postponements due to Canadian attendance concerns
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he doesn't expect many more Canadian team games will be postponed for attendance issues because the league is running out of time to make up the games already postponed.www.sportsnet.ca
The teams should have fewer scheduling conflicts than their US counterparts, unless the arenas loaded up on concerts, etc. IIRC, only Toronto and Winnipeg share their arenas with anyone else and I’m sure that if push came to shove, the Jets would move the Manitoba Moose somewhere else if necessary.
Even the US arenas didn't load on concerts as much as they would have pre-pandemic. There just aren't as many arena acts out on the road right now ... for the obvious reasons. There are some, but nothing like 2019 levels.
True, but it’s not limited to concerts. PNC won’t be available for a few days before and after 2/12 and 2/19 with the rodeo and 2 days of the Monster Jam booked. And many of the arenas have co-tenants to schedule around. It’s an extreme example, and it’s one of the busiest arenas in the world, but Madison Square Garden only has a few days available in February, unless the Rangers want to play a matinee before a Knicks or St. John’s basketball game. The arena is booked every day between 2/8-14 and then again from 2/18-23 before the Rangers play again on the 24th.
The hockey internet crew seems confused by this one. He's a UFA this summer and clearly not in the Wild's plans going forward so there's no urgency All they have to do to make him go away is wait until Jul 1. And it's lot like he's playing all that poorly ... and he's playing a lot. Yeah, they've got Victor over-slotted and he's not carrying his weight on offense but since when has that been the player's problem? He was never a Top 6 guy, no matter how much wish-casting they've done up there. Maybe it's motivational, I dunno.
