One can follow all the rules as much as possible and still get it because it is a virus. Copyright © 1999-2021 New Jersey Devils and the National Hockey League. Given that the Flyers played in Newark - remember Zajac was added the day after the second Flyers game last Thursday - I would imagine there are concerns within the Philadelphia organization about positive cases given their recent games in New Jersey. The Sabres hosted the New Jersey Devils for matinee games on Saturday and Sunday. The New Jersey Devils are without arguably their best player after Mackenzie Blackwood was placed on the COVID-19 protocol list. About 2,000 fans will be allowed to attend tonight's game against the New … It marks the fifth straight day the Canucks’ list has grown. DitD & Open Post - 4/16/21: Help, Send Draft Guides Edition, New Jersey Devils & Related Hockey Links for 4/16/21, The 2010s for the Devils - A Decade of Necessary Changes, We Are All About the Jersey - A Statement, All About the Jersey Declaration of Principles, As reported through this Tweet by Chris Johnston of Sportsnet. The League announced Tuesday evening that five more New Jersey Devils … The league has announced the Sabres are shut down through at least Feb. 8 after two players were added to the COVID-19 protocol list. New Jersey Devils Schedule, Roster, News, and Rumors | All About The Jersey, Five More Devils Added to COVID-19 Protocol List; Mackenzie Blackwood Removed, The Devils are an Unceasing Vortex of Offensive Ineptitude. On Tuesday, the Devils had 14 players and on Monday 10 players in COVID quarantine. The league announced that due to cases involved and ongoing tests, the Sabres are idle until February 8 at a minimum. Buffalo’s game at he New York Islanders scheduled for tonight was already postponed. Worse, according to John Vogl of The Athletic, the two linesmen at the Devils-Sabres games that weekend also entered COVID-19 protocols. NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup and NHL Conference logos are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. Five new players were added to the League's COVID Protocol List on Tuesday evening, the NHL announced. No they won’t, you absolute imbecile. There is no easy answer to all of this and the information on the ground requires a fluid situation. The Sabres played two games this past weekend against the New Jersey Devils, who were shut down through at least Saturday with 10 players on the league’s COVID protocols list. This is the worst-case scenario with running the NHL season as it is. The Devils are now up to 19 due to three additions: Carrick, Sami Vatanen, and Nico Hischier. NHL players out of games because of COVID-19. Yesterday, the NHL made the decision to postpone the three games the New Jersey Devils were set to play this week due to the addition of four more forwards to the COVID-19 Protocol. On Monday, the NHL announced the Devils season was postponed until at least Feb. 6 due to the team's list growing to 10 names. He was added prior to the Devils’ first game against the Islanders on January 21. UPDATE: Tom Gulitti posted the league’s COVID-19 Protocol List for the day. It is easy to say “They should have played in a bubble” now, but I do not think that was ever a viable option for the season. The last two games played by New Jersey were in Buffalo, and the Sabres have also been impacted since. Use arrows to navigate between autocomplete results. … It marks the fifth straight day the Canucks’ list has grown. Chris Johnston of Sportsnet reported this evening that five more New Jersey Devils were added to the COVID-19 Protocol List as well as two Buffalo Sabres players. The NHLPA did not want to do that again as players - understandably, in my view - hated being sequestered from the world for two months to play. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search. one team had to leave due to COVID-19 concerns within the past five days. Follow on Twitter. I sympathize with the Sabres. Mackenzie Blackwood was removed from the list as well. Players would need to go through these protocols to join the team, so it is not … The Vancouver Canucks now have 17 players in the NHL COVID-19 protocol with the addition of rookie forward Nils Hoglander. The 17 players in the protocol at the same time represents the most by one NHL team since the New Jersey Devils had 18 on Feb. 12. Unfortunately, what’s done is done. If it is from the league, the Devils followed league protocols, and/or the information was not free to share, then I doubt anything else will happen to the Devils beyond following league directions to get their season back on track. I do not blame them for feeling this way. I presume he can rejoin the team when the team’s facilities re-open and the team is allowed to have activities together (e.g. Buffalo played New Jersey twice over the weekend, and the Devils are off through at least Feb. 6 with 10 players on the list. And the NHWL has shown that the bubble approach is not a fail-safe; one team had to leave due to COVID-19 concerns within the past five days. The New Jersey Devils had 19 players on the COVID protocol list and seven games postponed, while the Buffalo Sabres had nine players on the list and six games postponed. The Sabres organization is very unhappy about the situation. It’s news that most fans should expect during a … It is not known whether such an effort would be feasible for a 56-game season in terms of venue availability and resources. Perhaps this will lead to more restrictive rules and protocols, but that will be up to the league and the union to come up with them and then agree to them. It is happening with the Devils and now the Sabres are subject to it. That, among other factors, why this has been so difficult for nearly everyone to deal with. This evening, five more members of the New Jersey Devils were added to the list. If they are truly positive for the virus, we hope it is as mild as they it can be, they recover fully from it, and the situation does not expand any more than it already has. That last point is relevant as two members of the Buffalo Sabres were also added to the COVID-19 Protocol List today as per Johnston: Taylor Hall and Risto Ristolainen. Greg Wyshynski is ESPN's senior NHL writer.