1) The Titans didn't catch the version that the Canucks have.
2) Football isn't nearly as cardio-heavy as hockey.
3) NFL teams have entire practice rosters they can use and it doesn't take 7 days and hurt your farm team's schedule to move players between them.
This is a very different situation than the one the Titans faced.
As I said in the previous post, I don't think the Titans is as bad as the Canucks but I do think it's a comparable.
1) We don't know a ton about the variant yet, but for sure this is in play here.
2) I've played both sports pretty extensively and I would disagree. I do think you use your cardio differently in both sports but I would say they are pretty similar in terms of exertion.
3) The NFL (this might have been slightly adjusted last year) generally has 46 gameday players, 7 additional "scratches", and then 10 practice squad players. In the NHL you have 20 gameday players, 3 extras, 6 man practice squad, and then all of their affiliated players available to be called up. I just don't buy the excuse that it's tougher to fill the NHL squad when you look at the numbers, it doesn't add up to me. The Canucks have not used any resources in the last two weeks (waivers, trading for additional players, Utica callups) and now they don't have enough healthy players.
I just think management has been caught off-guard with how their players are reacting to Covid and they've put themselves in a bad situation. We'll see if the NHL agrees because if the Canucks get fined or lose draft picks at some point the mistakes they've made along the way will be brought up. And yes, the Canucks not calling up players so they don't have enough guys to play scheduled games might be a really big mistake.