The 2019-20 Around the League Thread, Pt. VI - Zamboni Goalie Edition

[tradervik]

Cancel the season
Don’t care if we don’t get a shot at 1OA pick
Does this seems right to all of you????

Isn't the false positive rate something like 1%? If it is and the bubble occupants are all virus free, 2.000 tests in one day will yield 20 false positives.

Maybe it's better with "group testing", which will also greatly reduce the amount of lab work.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

the NBA has a policy where any player that declines to play is free to do that without any consequences other than not getting paid for those months.

has anyone heard what the NHL's planning for an opt out policy?

 

[Deeds26]

the NBA has a policy where any player that declines to play is free to do that without any consequences other than not getting paid for those months.

has anyone heard what the NHL's planning for an opt out policy?

Players have about 3 days after the Return to Play is officially signed off on to inform their team, in writing, that they intend to sit out with no penalty. If they choose to sit out after the deadline then they will be fined I think.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Players have about 3 days after the Return to Play is officially signed off on to inform their team, in writing, that they intend to sit out with no penalty. If they choose to sit out after the deadline then they will be fined I think.

ah thx

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Isn't the false positive rate something like 1%? If it is and the bubble occupants are all virus free, 2.000 tests in one day will yield 20 false positives.

Maybe it's better with "group testing", which will also greatly reduce the amount of lab work.

Sports league are taking away tests that could be use in hospital or on front line workers, simple

 

[xtra]

Sports league are taking away tests that could be use in hospital or on front line workers, simple

I’m pretty sure testing is widely available in Canada and anyone that wants one can get it.

isn’t it the same in the states?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

I’m pretty sure testing is widely available in Canada and anyone that wants one can get it.

isn’t it the same in the states?

probably a separate issue but in the US there is the getting your insurance to pay for the tests problem, right?

 

[xtra]

probably a separate issue but in the US there is the getting your insurance to pay for the tests problem, right?

probably; I think we also have to take into consideration the federal government is closing down testing sites as well more so than the actual amount of tests being produced

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

 

[Aphid Attraction]

Sports league are taking away tests that could be use in hospital or on front line workers, simple

Another way to think of it is that they are creating jobs and increasing the capacity for testing as a flow-on effect.

 

[xtra]

Bracket to the Wild already? 9 days after being a free agent

 

[sting101]

Bracket to the Wild already? 9 days after being a free agent

Glad he wen't to a hockey mad market. Man the Wild have been awful at the draft table hopefully he gets them back to being respectable

 

[VanJack]

Wow! The schedule for the 'play-in' series has been released. Games starting at 12:30; 3:30 and 6:30 p.m every day until series winners are decided.

Fans will be going bug-eyed trying to follow three games every day in West; and another three games in the East. Those PVR's will be on melt-down!

I wonder if Sportsnet will have 'wall-to'wall' hockey with replays of games that fans might miss?

 

[MS]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

 

[Zombotron]

Yeeeup.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

Totally agreed.

I've been enjoying watching European soccer start back up, because those countries have covid under control and it feels responsible.

But the pandemic response in the US is an unqualified disaster. Even though the hub cities are both Canadian, US teams holding mini camps right now feels so, so reckless and unnecessary. And don't even get me started on the MLB, NBA, and MLS plans. MLS is already a full blown shitshow.

That being said, if CanPL wanted to start back up in Canada, EPL-style, I think I would be on board with that.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

I'm honestly trying to get myself psyched for playoff hockey...but there's just nothing there. At this point I'm more fussed about the idea of paying more for cable by adding the SNet and TSN packages back on that I am about the games themselves. Everything's got this giant asterisk hanging over it. I'm just waiting for the hammer to fall and it getting formally cancelled.

 

[hellstick]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

I don't refer to it as the Stanley Cup playoffs and that helps. But obviously the time since the last game is basically a regular offseason at this point.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

Hell yeah don't think I've ever been more excited for sports in my life. Gonna be a unique situation in sports we have never seen and probably will never see again.

It's gonna be great!

 

[VanillaCoke]

Keep in mind there's a real, very good chance that its not going to be great

 

[Josepho]

It's very likely going to be a mess but it'll be a unique and interesting experience that I'll one day get to tell the Grandkids about.

This is still better than having no sports.

 

[tradervik]

I think it's going to be interesting to see how these games are produced. There are rumours the NHL will be putting cameras all over the place so I'm curious to see what they come up with. Also curious to find out if they will use artificial crowd noise or something to fill the echoing emptiness. Maybe they'll fill the stands with those Molson "red light" devices.

 

[timw33]

Does anyone else not really care at all about this weird hockey tournament in front of empty buildings in August?

The players have spent the equivalent to a normal offseason not playing, and barely training, which means it'll be rife with chaotic randomness and a preseason level of hockey for the Play In round.

I already found it hard to get pysched up about playoffs when it was in June, it might be a bit hard for August/September.

I still feel like there's a very high chance it gets cancelled before it's ever completed and they'll end up having to scuttle/postpone the 20/21 season as a result of outbreaks and 2nd waves this fall and winter.

 

[racerjoe]

Yeah I mentioned it earlier... just seems ridiculous at this point. How many players have already been diagnosed too?

 

[xtra]

Agreed; it totally feels fake to try and get up for August hockey; and what happens if a team has to pull out from the tourney like Nashville and Dallas in the MLS.

if Minnesota suddenly has to pull out does that really count as a playoff round win for the canucks.