Vancouver Canucks COVID-19 Breakout (No unrelated covid talk)

[cowboy82nd]

Terrible situation.

Assuming that it can take up to 2 weeks for COVID to really take hold you have to look at the road trip Vancouver had 2 weeks ago to Ottawa and Montreal and things are spiking there now.

I can't help but thinking returning snowbirds from Florida is fueling this in Quebec.

I thought the border was still closed. Am I wrong?

 

[Theokritos]

Moderation reminder: No general Covid talk, as per thread title.

 

[MXD]

I thought the border was still closed. Am I wrong?

Not closed to air travel.

 

[Peterpuck7810]

Sounds like the entire city of vancouver has had a flareup. This team may not play again for several weeks if at all....

 

[blankall]

Sounds like the entire city of vancouver has had a flareup. This team may not play again for several weeks if at all....

Can't see for they can play again for at least two weeks with an infection breakout like this. We could still see more cases for the next few days.

 

[Theokritos]

Folks, if some of you cannot comply with the moderator note in the thread title and the moderator note right above (post 176), reply bans will be handed out.

 

[BurntToast]

With the situation, I am curious if the NHL will make adjustments to the trade deadline. While not likely, the Canucks still have a shot securing that final spot. At the very least it’s a disadvantage even if they would like to sell.

Obviously the Health of the team and the families are the most important issues, but this is an interesting situation for the league.

 

[PG Canuck]

Games in hand mean very little because there's still too much of the season left for games in hand to even come into play.

The league would still allow Vancouver the opportunity to make the playoffs. If anything they'd put the season on pause and allow Vancouver to fully recover. They wouldn't just cancel their games unless Vancouver requests it.

The NHL isn’t pausing the entire season for one team. That’s pretty insane.

 

[shaner82]

Apologies if I haven't been following closely enough, but does the reason that the entire NHL (players, coaches, staff) not vaccinated by now still boil down to optics? When vaccinating the league en masse was brought up many months ago, there was an argument that these younger people should not cut in line in front of more eligible folks. Now that tens of millions have been vaccinated in the U.S. and Canada, are there still valid reasons why anyone traveling with the team should not be vaccinated?

I love watching the NHL and I hope the season continues as best as possible, but I'll be damned if a bunch of young, healthy hockey players get the vaccine before elderly people, people with chronic health conditions, firefighters, paramedics, nurses, etc.

Canada hasn't given the vaccine to everyone who is a priority yet, not even close. NHL players are not a priority whatsoever.

There's nothing essential about the NHL.

 

[Gutchecktime]

I'd unfortunately agree with the last poster that other populations have to be prioritized over NHLers and we're not there yet as a country.

 

[TrufleShufle]

I love watching the NHL and I hope the season continues as best as possible, but I'll be damned if a bunch of young, healthy hockey players get the vaccine before elderly people, people with chronic health conditions, firefighters, paramedics, nurses, etc.

Canada hasn't given the vaccine to everyone who is a priority yet, not even close. NHL players are not a priority whatsoever.

There's nothing essential about the NHL.

It’s essentially the only thing I watch, doesn’t count?

 

[robertocarlos]

I love watching the NHL and I hope the season continues as best as possible, but I'll be damned if a bunch of young, healthy hockey players get the vaccine before elderly people, people with chronic health conditions, firefighters, paramedics, nurses, etc.

Canada hasn't given the vaccine to everyone who is a priority yet, not even close. NHL players are not a priority whatsoever.

There's nothing essential about the NHL.

It's 350 vaccinations for the Canadian teams. That's a spillage error most days.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

It's 350 vaccinations for the Canadian teams. That's a spillage error most days.

Giving any vaccine to an NHL player before a Nurse or Doctor or any Frontline worker would be a crime, imo. And not only a crime, but morally and ethically reprehensible.

 

[Fatass]

With their AHL team in Covid protocol, and so many of the big club in Covid protocol, I just don’t see how the Canucks (when they do start playing again) will get in 56 games.

 

[David Bruce Banner]

I will be surprised if other teams don't have similar outbreaks soon.

 

[SenzZen]

Scary situation. Hope they are able to fully recover- regardless of the season’s implications.

 

[robertocarlos]

Canucks need to go 12-6-1 to make the playoffs with Habs winning at a .400 rate. Canucks season is done.

 

[shaner82]

It's 350 vaccinations for the Canadian teams. That's a spillage error most days.

Doesn't matter. That's 350 others who could get the vaccine

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Doesn't matter. That's 350 others who could get the vaccine

but what if they vaccinate NHLers for... reasons, and then tell everyone to promise to be really really careful and to not spill or spoil or waste any vaccines for that day?

 

[WeDislikeEich]

Buffalo getting outfoxed by Vancouver.

As a Sabres fan, I’d honestly be happy for Canucks fans if Vancouver won the 1st overall pick instead of Buffalo. They’ve never had one.

 

[flyfysher]

I will be surprised if other teams don't have similar outbreaks soon.

Unfortunately that’s what I was thinking too.

 

[LeHab]

If 56 games are not likely to be played, league will probably nix games vs Sens (4 left) to minimize impact on playoff race.

 

[AddyTheWrath]

 

[Gutchecktime]

Absolutely awful.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

my thoughts are with all the players and families but i really hope hamonic’s family built in vigilant and preemptive contact restrictions in their home and daily life in case this ever happened.