Pre-Game Talk: 2022 World Junior Hockey Championship

[BlackDogg]

Would think this will be damaging to the tournament now going forward from teams to fans. Going to be hard to take seriously.

I certainly would not buy a ticket, knowing its a possible bust if someone gets a hangnail.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

literally every team is double vaxxed with boosters on hand, so either don't trust the vaccines, or they don't trust the mandates

absolute clown world we are living at the moment

 

[Oilhawks]

I could possibly see it if entire teams had it, but I think you do what you can to get through the tourney, without wasting these kid's trip across the ocean. I hate to see what happens if we get hit by something worse like alien life discovered within the population.

Queue picture of D Eakins coaching.

 

[BlackDogg]

The point of this past week is to disappoint as many hockey players as possible.

Tardif is holding Gary Bettman's beer yet.

 

[Beerfish]

Would think this will be damaging to the tournament now going forward from teams to fans. Going to be hard to take seriously.

I certainly would not buy a ticket, knowing its a possible bust if someone gets a hangnail.

Though I defend your right to your opinion and the your feelings towards the tourney I think the hang nail comment is totally out of line with the situation.

 

[Ninety7]

I mean, who didn’t see that coming lol.

 

[Oilhawks]

Though I defend your right to your opinion and the your feelings towards the tourney I think the hang nail comment is totally out of line with the situation.

You're right, a hang nail is worse, you could get an infection from it. Dave Tippett could have died from his asymptomatic Covid infection

 

[CycloneSweep]

You're right, a hang nail is worse, you could get an infection from it. Dave Tippett could have died from his asymptomatic Covid infection

I think this is the dumbest thing you have ever posted good grief

 

[CycloneSweep]

At the end of the day the IIHF went with an absolutely ridiculously overkill covid protocol that made zero sense and forced teams to give up the games. This was the only option with their previous decisions.

Their covid policy didn’t line up with the local governments or even the other hockey leagues. AND they didn’t take the precautions necessary to have their protocols even make sense to begin with.

 

[Biltmore]

They drag those young guys over here from around the world and then with Covid rampaging through the general population they don't isolate them? Are you kidding me???

And then they shut the teams down on 1 positive test? What other outcome was even a remote possibility?

 

[Evilsports]

IIHF lost a load of credibility with this dog and pony show. . Nearing the rarified air of the IOC.

 

[MoontoScott]

Jim must have got a lot of turkey rest over the holidays. he's making some sense.

Anyway I watched the game last night and it was if the Canadian players already knew. They were just trying to have some fun together, play a good game, pile on the shots and goals and get some kind of positive out of this. Maybe goal differential wins the tournament, lol.

The IIHF once again have zero credibility and thats been limited for over 50yrs. Now who pays for all the costs of getting here, making the effort, planefare, hotels etc? Doesn't the gate and TV contracts mitigate some of the costs. Now both of these are gone.

Every attending team should be billing IIHF for all costs at this point if they are not.

We seem to now live in a world where we are unable (or simply unwilling) to manage or mitigate risk while still carrying on with daily life and enjoyable pursuits.

This virus is certainly very serious (and cannot be ignored) but so are many other things in life that we have long learned to live with and deal with.

Is it fair to people and particularly teenagers who worked so hard (to simply make these teams and travelled so far to get here) that we have no detailed plans or contingencies to deal with these matters? What has happened to the innovation and adventurous spirit that built this country?

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

 

[Stoneman89]

Well, that sucks.

Earlier, a poster on here was saying how happy he was that the U.S. had their game cancelled and forfeited. Nice.
Amazing how karma comes back to bite you and make you look like an ass.

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

literally every team is double vaxxed with boosters on hand, so either don't trust the vaccines, or they don't trust the mandates

absolute clown world we are living at the moment

The league made an error in forfeits due to covid.....should have gone with waiver for covid and all players to play. (not anit vax)

 

[harpoon]

How do you not get exclusive hotel, transport, for this? Omicron wave was known for a month. If you don't have a hotel booked exclusively throw money at a hotel to get it done pronto. There is no way different guests AND functions should be occurring at the same hotel

Ding ding. This seems like the obvious question to be asked of the organizers.

Folks wondering why the NHL can continue while this tournament is cancelled are kind of missing the point imo. This is a tournament involving amateurs, and for the most part minors. The NHL is a league of millionaire adults who have a very powerful union that allows them to make their own decisions about life. If anything, the protocols should have been more stringent for this short tournament than they are for the NHL. There have been many cases of healthy people who have taken all the shots and still ended up in hospital or tragically passed away. How is the IIHF supposed to explain even one incident like that to the parents of these kids? They did the wrong thing by not bolting down the protocols for this event, but the absolute right thing in cancelling it. It’s a shame they didn’t take it more seriously.

 

[BlackDogg]

Though I defend your right to your opinion and the your feelings towards the tourney I think the hang nail comment is totally out of line with the situation.

They are asymptomatic cases and few at that, same as the NHL, and all double/triple? vaxxed. I was going to use the word sliver, but that might have gone too far.

 

[MoontoScott]

They drag those young guys over here from around the world and then with Covid rampaging through the general population they don't isolate them? Are you kidding me???

And then they shut the teams down on 1 positive test? What other outcome was even a remote possibility?

Great point. What was the chance that there would not be an outbreak when you are talking about hundreds of players, organizers, staff etc and no isolation?

You didn't need to be Nostradamus to see that it was virtually guaranteed that there would be an outbreak of some kind. So what was the plan--apart from cancellation. Were there no other options?

 

[Oilhawks]

I think this is the dumbest thing you have ever posted good grief

Have you kept up with Omicron? If you're afraid of this, it'll never end. Literally never.

 

[Oilhawks]

They absolutely should. But then again, the next variant might cause more asymptomatic cases. Better have a bubble

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

last years covid was contact based this years is not. people cant make decisions.

 

[BlackDogg]

They absolutely should. But then again, the next variant might cause more asymptomatic cases. Better have a bubble

In July everyone will be too busy to pay attention to the virtues of cancelling too.

 

[bellagiobob]

Please don’t hold it here. Black cloud around the tourney two straight years, don’t go for the hat trick here.

 

[MoontoScott]

Please don’t hold it here. Black cloud around the tourney two straight years, don’t go for the hat trick here.

And don't forget about the variant that will show up in July.

 

[Oilhawks]

In July everyone will be too busy to pay attention to the virtues of cancelling too.