Harbingers

Completely missed it yesterday. Two Red Wings have been placed in the protocol.

Florida Panthers are now down 5 + some coaches/trainers. The league just needs to do a hard stop before the entire thing implodes. I don’t give a poo if they have to change their schedule. Player, coach and fan safety is more important. Play the games at practice rinks if the venues are booked.

Or expand the cap to allow us to call up enough players.

Basically the whole team and whole staff at this point.

We are at cap. So we most likely will be playing with 7 forwards and 6 defense.

Chatfield is officially on IR. I’m guessing they are doing street signups to fill the 6 roster vacancies unless the NHL is adding a taxi squad back.

Plus if Chatfield can actually play or not.

Fug you NHL. Forcing us to play 5 forwards and a defense down? Fast and Necas better be gods.

Pierre thinks we are playing Thursday since we had no more positive tests today. This just after we sent poturalski back to the AHL so either the NHL media is getting it wrong or the NHL hasn’t announced yet. If we play and can’t bring him back up we are looking at 14 players 7O, 7D. 15 if we bring Poturalski back up. Hopefully the league and PA will change the cap/add taxi squads back. So we can at least field a full roster.

I’m beginning to think he wasn’t toxic in the locker room. I’m beginning to think he saw through Rhule and Rhule didnt like that.

Or he realized how trash our coaching staff was and said fug it, I’ll hold out for a trade.

Bergeron in the protocol now too. Boston was traveling western Canada the same time we were.

Oilers HC now in protocol as well.

All in good fun. Though I think Rhule will probably take it personally.

Sounds like thing are getting serious at the league level.

Right now it sounds like they will have to spend 3-5 weeks in a Chinese hospital quarantine unit if they test positive in China, even if they are asymptotic. Basically a month give or take, so if a guy tests positive near the end of the Olympics they still won’t be able to rejoin their team here until basically April. I highly doubt the NHL’ers are going to want to do that, so it sounds like we might get the scrub league this go round in the olympics. I’ve heard rumors/suggestions of doing a World Cup of Hockey this or next summer to make up for it if the players decide to opt out. But people are putting the chance very low that the NHLPA actually decides to do the Olympics. Even lower since covid has started to run rampant.

The first thing he should have done was bring in a guy(or panel) of football guru’s he trusted to do a complete top down analysis of the team and cut all the fat. Now it looks like we’ll get that when Rhule is shown the door. So many of our issues could have been avoided.

I’m all fine with coaches working within their tree. It’s only natural. But I think you are right, Rhule and Hurney were both gonna claim to be top dog. That doesn’t work with Rhules style and Tepper was still supporting at that point. Now we are to the point where something is going to have to break with the coaching staff. And Rhule isn’t going to put his guys on the chopping block. Tepper has to bring in a director of football operations/team president with complete control as the only way Rhule sticks around and sorry no, this football(soccer guy) isn’t it.

Definitely Hurney himself. Continuity, take the time to learn the business, etc, etc.

Edmonton has one player going onto the protocol and at least one coach in the past half hour as well.

Reports coming out a handful of Nashville Predators are entering the protocol as of half an hour ago. They are already postponed tonight for their game in Calgary, we are suppose to play them on Sunday.

He was on the sideline and around coaches players last game. Hopefully it’s contained. Even with the 100% vaccination the NHL and now apparently the NBA too are having a hell of a time.

The crazy part is everyone was held up yesterday in Vancouver because of delayed tests. The must have cleared to be allowed to fly back to the states. Now they test positive today? Where is the disconnect?

“In addition to Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis, who are currently in quarantine per the NHL's COVID protocols, four additional Hurricanes players have tested positive for the virus: Ian Cole, Steven Lorentz, Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov.” Cole sounded a little sniffly on his presser earlier but nothing too bad.