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It's most likely best not to keep speculating who and just hope the team is able to successfully convince the person to get jabbed.
Devils 2021 training camp thread (news, notes and speculation)
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JrFischer54
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Yeah because this is exactly the type of spot light the team wants to showcase to the nhl and not the young kids at camp and how they are doing.
yeah, that’s the truth. We’re all acting like it’s Blackwood and we don’t even know for sure. And even if we DID know, there’s nothing to do except wait and see. So might as well do that regardless.
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People are making assumptions based on Instagram follows, same as they did with the PTO guy’s Twitter follows. You would think people would learn after jumping the gun once. I’d also bet money Blackwood isn’t the only other Devil besides the PTO guy with so-called questionable follows or beliefs either.
It's not just that. I've seen a few people who apparently have some insider info that have said it's him. How valid their sources are or if they're even telling the truth at all who knows but he seems to be the one everyone's pointing to
Wood, Zacha, Subban, Hamilton, and Bernier talked about the player in question in an article so its not any of them so "prominent" player really narrows it down. Hughes and Smith live together so it being them doesn't make sense either.
Also apparently has the same agency as Bertuzzi and Rinaldo and apparently didn't go back to Canada in the off-season.
All that in addition to who he follows on Instagram and I don't really think it's going out on a limb saying it's Blackwood.
I saw someone say that Severson said he was vaccinated in the Staff and Graph episode so not him either
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Im not sure what you’re getting at with that comment but I know they intended to implement protocols to keep people and Blackwood safe and at a comfortable distance. Never had any problems with the people who run the store before either.
When that decision about your own body impacts other people then yes it does.
I'll be disappointed in whoever it turns out to be, but if they're willing to miss games and money and go through additional protocols, I think they should be able to make that decision.
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In a normal setting yes, but this is the internet my friend. Gun jumping makes up roughly 87% of social media these days.
They had it outside, their "protocols" included no touching or handshakes but there were sure plenty of pictures with fans and him with arms around one another. Makes no sense to being doing that right before training camp.
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Yes it absolutely does. Get out of here with this nonsense.
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Really so it's no longer a free country?....just because others choose to get it he hast to....He can no longer contribute to the team due to not getting a shot? That is nonsense...
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If you are talking about throughout his career...sure. No question about it. If you are talking about his rookie season.... You might be revising history more than just a bit. Most of his time was with Brylin and a broken down Claude...he elevated their play and made things happen. He got little help and still succeeded. Brylin has 9 goals that year and Claude had 17....Gomez still managed 50+ assist. You're spinning bullshit if you are trying to say Gomez had good wingers his rookie season.
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Scott had 19 goals himself that year, he was sensational, I still remember one of the first games at the garden he had a hattrick, I never saw a rookie make it look so easy.
JrFischer54
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i mean if he’s going to miss games directly because he didn’t get the shot then he literally isn’t contributing to the team
Except he puts others at risk as well. Regardless of if everyone else is vaccinated, there are breakthrough cases. The safest possible course of action, especially for a group of people constantly in close contact with each other, is to get vaccinated. This player choosing not to get vaccinated affects everyone in multiple ways. So yes, selfish.
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This f***ing team got decimated by a Covid outbreak last season and some jerkoff doesn't want to get the shot.
What a f***ing doofus.
What a f***ing doofus.
Ask yourself that should be a reason someone doesn't play a game or get to do their job.....It makes no sense..
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The NHL’s protocol isn’t exactly amazing. They didn’t think things through last season, they had to scramble in early February when they realized that having a bunch of dudes bunched together, breathing heavily, in glass box wasn’t a good and they removed the glass shielding behind the players benches. And when they announced they were considering putting HEPA air cleaners behind the benches too. They also had teams create more locker space at that point so players so there could be 6 feet between players in locker rooms. (I guess costs had kept them from not bothering to from doing it before).
NHL Implements Four Modifications To COVID-19 In-Arena Protocols, Including Removal Of Glass from Behind Benches
And 2021-22 protocols deal with rules about people that interact with players and staff, travel (hotels, planes, buses, border crossing). And a lot about testing, symptoms and tracing, which is what the league really counts on.
because this:
Doesn’t help among teammate if there’s this major exception.
https://media.nhl.com/site/asset/public/ext/2021-22/2021-22COVIDProtocol.pdf
And I doubt Lou came up with his rule just because no important wasn’t unvaccinated. A team rule is for everybody, or it’s not a team rule. Hockey is team-oriented sport, if they aren’t willing to do it for the team, then they can’t be on the team. It’s not neck surgery, it a shot. If you if you don’t have it, you don’t have to be on the team. You’re in or you’re out.
That’s particularly why I don’t like him being at camp. But if Fitz is not coddling them, and setting up playing them, is somehow actually reaching them to get to change then that’s sort of ok, I guess.
Again, feel free to disagree, this is my take. (I hate COVID debates on internet and I hate that this is happening.)
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