The NHL introduced Sunday that as a consequence of a further Canucks participant being within the league’s COVID-19 protocols, the crew’s observe services won’t open till Monday on the earliest.
Canucks centre Jay Beagle was added to the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol record on Sunday.
The league mentioned he had not been across the crew since March 31, however the league’s medical workers, plus staffs of the NHL Gamers’ Affiliation and the crew decided “that the prudent resolution was to maintain the services closed for a further day,” the NHL mentioned in a launch.
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The choice is not anticipated to affect the Canucks’ first sport again on Friday, when the Edmonton Oilers are scheduled to go to.
Twenty-five individuals, together with 21 gamers and 4 members of the teaching workers, have examined constructive for the virus throughout the outbreak.
Whereas Beagle was added to the NHL’s protocol record, Adam Gaudette — who was the primary Canuck on it — has been eliminated, leaving 19 Vancouver gamers on the record. Solely gamers on the lively roster are on the record.
A participant doesn’t should register a constructive COVID-19 take a look at to be on the record. Being a detailed contact of a constructive COVID-19 case or a mandated journey quarantine, for instance, may put a participant on the record.
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The Canucks mentioned in a tweet Saturday that gamers would return to coaching and restricted particular person practices on Sunday, with a full group observe scheduled for Wednesday.
The outbreak noticed eight Canucks video games postponed between March 31 and April 14.
Vancouver GM Jim Benning mentioned Friday that the ailing gamers have been feeling higher, and are “on the opposite aspect of it.”
“We nonetheless have relations which can be getting sick and I feel the gamers fear about that,” the GM mentioned.
The Canucks’ overhauled schedule now has them set to finish the season on Could 16, which means a gruelling last stretch that can see them play 19 video games in 30 days together with six units of back-to-backs.
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