Jumb0 said:

mrussel1 said:

Meltdown99 said:

Nhl will officially be withdrawing from the Olympics…good move.

Good for them,  bad for us.  I love the Olympic hockey.  Understand the decision though. 

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Jumb0 said:

mrussel1 said:

Meltdown99 said:

Nhl will officially be withdrawing from the Olympics…good move.

Good for them,  bad for us.  I love the Olympic hockey.  Understand the decision though. 

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I was really looking forward to Olympic Hockey.

Indifference71 said:

Meltdown99 said:

The nhl is the worst run league with a dumdass basketball exec as commish…lmfa.

Yep.  The NHL is almost 100% vaccinated....I think it's only a couple players who aren't.  These players have done everything that has been asked of them.  They should take on the same strategy that the NFL just did where they are only testing players with symptoms.  These guys are literally the best athletes in the world and only know they have it because they are still tested constantly.  Yzerman made some really good points about this the other day.  

I agree.  Cancelling the Olympics was more about needing the month of February to make up all the games being cancelled…

I agree with the nba commish, he said “the nba is not suspending league play and that we have to learn to live with it.”

Meltdown99 said:

Steve Yzerman questions whether NHL should test players not showing COVID symptoms

https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2021/12/steve-yzerman-questions-whether-nhl-should-be-test-players-not-showing-covid-symptoms.html

The reality is that I'm gravitating towards this position.  If this strain is only 1/3 as likely to hospitalize (as we learned in the latest studies) and everything is mild, then at some point there is a case to actually treating this as the common cold or a flu.  If you are well enough to play through it, then play through it.  We are heading that way.  COVID will not be eradicated.  It will be seasonal.  And the seasonal flu kills This is the CDC assessment of the seasonal flu yearly for the past 10 years.  We don't stop leagues for this.

Meltdown99 said:

I’ve been in the we will need to learn to live with it crowd for awhile.  It will just be another cold or flu, just like the flu their will be a vaccine to protect us, just like the flu many will not take it…I’m double vaxxed and getting my booster.  I wish everyone would…in reality it will not happen.  The nhl is lucky this year…they booked the Olympics off.

Weakened variants + shots + effective treatments = part of life. 

So I guess the 4 days off didn't solve all the NHL's issues huh???  Until they stop testing players with no symptoms this nonsense is going to keep happening...

Meltdown99 said:

The nhl is cancelling Canadian games because of capacity limits.  Looks like they’ll need February.  Montreal was offered to have games postponed because they are hard hit with Covid, they decided to power on.  Might as well play for Shane Wright at this point…

glad to see Cory Perry doing well in Tampa…

Perry has been nice.  His grittiness helps offset the loss of Blake Coleman and Barclay Goodrow.  I think the Lightning repeat if they're healthy.  

Meltdown99 said:

A three-peat is possible.  As long as it's not the capitals, rangers, bruins or leafs...

Those are all good teams,  plus the Canes and Panthers.  All the good teams are in the east.  

Calgary just came east and had to play Florida,  Tampa and Carolina over 4 nights. It didn't go well. 

Agree.*

*I'm a Kings fan, lol, of course I think that.

Cory Perry is not garbage...not even close.  He's one of the few hockey players that have wjc gold, Olympic gold. World hockey championship gold and Stanlry Cup.  His leadership is outstanding...hes also in his late 30s and still provide better value than most teams 2nd liners...