Pre-Game Talk: Jets @ Leafs Jan. 18th

[Ginger Papa]

Figured I’d start this thread as we’re a couple of days out.
I’ve used this in the humour thread but not everyone here may have seen it, so I’ll retire it after this time.

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[Jets 31]

If Ottawa can beat them we can too . If we only win 11 games this season, let them all be against these bastards. Here's a song for Matthews.

 

[PhilJets]

Leafs will be fired up.

Matthews is due.


But Jets
Will still clover them.


If they try to be physical which they can't.

Laine and Ehlers will handle it

 

[King Woodballs]

If they win one game in the next week... please make it this one.

 

[King Woodballs]

Yikes....

 

[Jet]

The ONLY reason I wasn't totally depressed that we had to wait til Monday for the next game was that I thought it was great that the team could practice for a couple of days and work on things they struggled with on Thursday. Of course, COVID has to go and F it up.

 

[PhilJets]

No practice due to covid precaution?

 

[Daximus]

Good chance this game is post-poned if any players test positive

 

[ps241]

It could mean anything heck maybe a Flames player tested positive. Welcome to the 2021 season.

 

[King Woodballs]

It could mean anything heck maybe a Flames player tested positive. Welcome to the 2021 season.

While true. If that was the case, I think we would have heard about their game tonight being in jeopardy.
Who knows at this point. Anything would just be pure speculation.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

While true. If that was the case, I think we would have heard about their game tonight being in jeopardy.
Who knows at this point. Anything would just be pure speculation.

At HF Boards, speculation is job #1.

 

[EpicGingy]

Hopefully it really is just precautionary and nobody has covid. In this case it's good that we had a few days off and didn't start with back to back games.

 

[surixon]

The Canucks canceled last week due to a false positive test.

This could be anything. If a Jet tested positive they will be on that daily protocol list.

I'm not really all that concerned as of now.

 

[Atoyot]

We're the 5th or 6th team to cancel practice out of "an abundance of caution" and only one team has had to postpone any games.

 

[Derfel]

It's peak Jets to have a season-opener game, and then 3 days off.

It's also peak Jets to have a crisis event during that time off.

It's 100% peak Jets to then face the Leafs of all teams when they return.

 

[SUX2BU]

Apparently, the leaves love cross checking these days

 

[29from27and55]

Leafs will be fired up.

Matthews is due.


But Jets
Will still clover them.


If they try to be physical which they can't.

Laine and Ehlers will handle it

annoying they have simmonds and bogosian now and they think their some big physical team all of a sudden. i hope laine fights mathews and ehlers fights marner in a line brawl. that would be the start to 2021 we need

 

[HannuJ]

we get no respect. no respect, i tells ya

i wasn't aware we lost to Calgary in overtime

 

[HannuJ]

The Canucks canceled last week due to a false positive test.

This could be anything. If a Jet tested positive they will be on that daily protocol list.

I'm not really all that concerned as of now.

i'm connecting some possible dots.
Ehlers was out due to symptoms but tested negative. negative tests really don't mean all that much.
wondering if he now tested positive or has symptoms

 

[surixon]

i'm connecting some possible dots.
Ehlers was out due to symptoms but tested negative. negative tests really don't mean all that much.
wondering if he now tested positive or has symptoms

Not sure, with the amount of tests these guys are doing I would imagine there will be a number of false positives throughout the year. It could also be something with the contact tracing.

 

[HannuJ]

Not sure, with the amount of tests these guys are doing I would imagine there will be a number of false positives throughout the year. It could also be something with the contact tracing.

false positives are a 1 in 100 chance (unless the NHL is using a different testing method).
false negatives are approximately 25%, but it depends on when the person was tested in their point of being infected.

 

[surixon]

false positives are a 1 in 100 chance (unless the NHL is using a different testing method).
false negatives are approximately 25%, but it depends on when the person was tested in their point of being infected.

Well these guys are getting tested every day so that is probably 30 plus tests a day for each team.

 

[jetsv2]

Well these guys are getting tested every day so that is probably 30 plus tests a day for each team.

The NHL did over 30,000 tests in the bubble last summer and had no false positives, so I would be careful assuming any positive tests this season are false positives.

NHL announces ninth straight week of zero positive Covid-19 test results

 

[surixon]

The NHL did over 30,000 tests in the bubble last summer and had no false positives, so I would be careful assuming any positive tests this season are false positives.

I'm not assuming that they will be. Just saying it was a false positive that shut the canucks practice down a week ago.

 

[jetsv2]

I'm not assuming that they will be. Just saying it was a false positive that shut the canucks practice down a week ago.

It wasn't actually a false positive thought. It turned out to be an acutal positive with Jordie Benn having covid. He first tested positive, but then tested negative which is why the reported it as a false positive. But he then tested positive again and is now in a 14 day quarantine.

Canucks' J.T. Miller and Jordie Benn in COVID-19 quarantine - North Shore News.

According to a follow-up report from Global BC's Richard Zussman, one of Benn or Miller tested positive for COVID-19, then negative in a follow-up test, then positive once again, then negative in a fourth test.
Unlike in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, this is not a best-of-seven situation. According to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol, personnel that receive an initial positive result must have three days of negative tests to confirm the initial test as a "false positive." Since one of the subsequent tests had a positive result, the player would be considered a "confirmed positive" and required to isolate.
This would appear to be the source of the "false positive" that led to the cancellation of Sunday's Canucks practice. If the second follow-up test was positive as reported by Zussman, then that is no longer considered a "false positive" and the Canucks' "abundance of caution" in cancelling practice was a prudent decision.