12-29-2021, 02:08 PM
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#41
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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World Juniors cancelled
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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
I agree.
Seems leagues are starting to adapt (thank you NFLPA for getting it started), but happened too fast with the World Juniors.
Hopefully it gets rescheduled for the summer because it's a shame that these young kids are missing out on what is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most of them because of horrible planning and dumb protocols.
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I'm not sure the NFL deserves any praise. At minimum three teams with playoff hopes got screwed because their QBs tested positive and they had to play people who they'd not very normally play.
So kudos for playing the games but it'd be like continuing this tournament but forcing the US to use some random AAA goalie in the area because their goalie tested positive. So yeah... You played the games, but screwed over a bunch of teams to do it.
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12-29-2021, 02:09 PM
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#42
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I’m seeing people saying this should be held in Florida “where we live life.” FFS.
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Unless all these cases were asymptomatic, I'm not sure there's anywhere that would let symptomatic players keep playing.
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12-29-2021, 02:09 PM
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#43
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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From Scott Wheeler of the Athletic
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Reservations for the Cambridge Red Deer Hotel have been closed for some time now. But it also functions as a conference center and the deal was to honor longstanding bookings.
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By honoring these commitments, they've exposed the teams to dozens (if not more) of people, including a wedding reception.
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12-29-2021, 02:11 PM
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#44
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Franchise Player
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Simply put, IIHF got greedy, and got burned.
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12-29-2021, 02:12 PM
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#45
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by alexle
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Down this thread I learned that one of the medical excuses can be “cognitive impairment”. Make your own joke.
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12-29-2021, 02:14 PM
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#46
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by alexle
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Easy friendo.
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12-29-2021, 02:15 PM
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#47
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I’m seeing people saying this should be held in Florida “where we live life.” FFS.
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Letting the virus run wild could allow it to mutate into one that is as infectious as omicron but with significant more lethality and vaccine resistance. Then every old person in Florida will no longer be living life.
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12-29-2021, 02:18 PM
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#48
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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
Letting the virus run wild could allow it to mutate into one that is as infectious as omicron but with significant more lethality and vaccine resistance. Then every old person in Florida will no longer be living life.
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Well, I'm so glad we have your opinion as a professional epidemiologist, as opposed to more of the constant fearmongering that we've been subjected to for two years.
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12-29-2021, 02:21 PM
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#50
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
Letting the virus run wild could allow it to mutate into one that is as infectious as omicron but with significant more lethality and vaccine resistance. Then every old person in Florida will no longer be living life.
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Florida is down to averaging 2 deaths per day! They've accomplished this by no longer counting deaths reported after the day it happened (Deaths are almost never reported the same day). I'm sure they could arrange for no COVID cases for a 2 week tournament.
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12-29-2021, 02:22 PM
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#51
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
From Scott Wheeler of the Athletic
By honoring these commitments, they've exposed the teams to dozens (if not more) of people, including a wedding reception.
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It's not like these people are in the same hotel room as others. You can avoid these other people if you want. Seems like a weird excuse. I live in a condo building and can manage to keep distance from people if I need to. I might have to wait for the next elevator or take the stairs but it's not that difficult.
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12-29-2021, 02:26 PM
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#52
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Azure
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Sure there is boot licker Dreger.
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12-29-2021, 02:28 PM
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#53
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damn onions
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Without more information, canceling seems like overkill.
You have 4 total players test positive, so cancel the entire tournament?
Seems like so many potential solutions to this problem. Totally bizarre to me unless there’s something we don’t know. Weren’t the positive players then isolating effective immediately? I don’t even get the need to forfeit games if these players are rapid testing negative the day of a game, even if a teammate tests positive and has to be removed from said game.
These are 18 year old kids. Missing 1 to even 3-4 players should not be a deal breaker as running 7 F or 5 D is not a big deal is it?
I really find this quite over the top at this stage, especially with what we know what Omicron today. Just a very strange reaction to 4 players testing positive.
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12-29-2021, 02:31 PM
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#54
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I’m surprised TSN didn’t make them put it off at least until tonight.
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12-29-2021, 02:32 PM
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#55
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I’m seeing people saying this should be held in Florida “where we live life.” FFS.
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Truer words were never spoken.
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12-29-2021, 02:32 PM
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#56
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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Originally Posted by alexle
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'Berta!
Red Deer and small town Alberta is really out there tho
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12-29-2021, 02:33 PM
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#57
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Without more information, canceling seems like overkill.
You have 4 total players test positive, so cancel the entire tournament?
Seems like so many potential solutions to this problem. Totally bizarre to me unless there’s something we don’t know. Weren’t the positive players then isolating effective immediately? I don’t even get the need to forfeit games if these players are rapid testing negative the day of a game, even if a teammate tests positive and has to be removed from said game.
These are 18 year old kids. Missing 1 to even 3-4 players should not be a deal breaker as running 7 F or 5 D is not a big deal is it?
I really find this quite over the top at this stage, especially with what we know what Omicron today. Just a very strange reaction to 4 players testing positive.
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It was a goalie for the US. And he was rooming with a other goalie. That is where you run into trouble. And probably easier to cancel now then keep picking up cases and having forfeits all over the place.
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12-29-2021, 02:36 PM
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#58
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damn onions
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But don’t they have 3 goalies? Can’t a D slap on the pads in an emergency situation?
Again, that doesn’t seem valid enough to cancel the entire tournament.
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12-29-2021, 02:38 PM
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#59
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by White Out 403
'Berta!
Red Deer and small town Alberta is really out there tho
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The guy with the Winnipeg name and avatar says
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12-29-2021, 02:38 PM
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#60
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: In the studio
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Yea 1 or 2 forfeits is fine but when it starts dictating the outcome of the tournament it really defeats the purpose. Feel bad for the families and the kids who travelled all that way for a disappointing outcome I’m sure all would agree was unwanted. Not sure why they didn’t duplicate the bubble format and at this point seems like a regrettable decision not to.
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