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ULF_55 said:
I'd say the minimum is to stop teams from cheating.

Otherwise there'd no need for a 10 games and 24 days criteria.
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Yes the rule is to prevent cheating the cap.

In this case, they clearly aren't cheating the cap, so it would make no sense to force healthy players to miss more games.

When the rule was put in place, they wouldn't have anticipated weeks of games getting postponed so it would make sense to tweak the rule when an extraordinary event like a global pandemic occurs.
 
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Deebo said:
Yes the rule is to prevent cheating the cap.

In this case, they clearly aren't cheating the cap, so it would make no sense to force healthy players to miss more games.

When the rule was put in place, they wouldn't have anticipated weeks of games getting postponed so it would make sense to tweak the rule when an extraordinary event like a global pandemic occurs.
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The NHL really needs to chill out about hockey related revenues and their cap especially in light of the franchise valuations going sky high.
 
Leafs captain John Tavares returns and recounts ‘very difficult’ COVID-19 ordeal | The Star

A pounding headache, body aching all over, enervating fatigue. Loss of smell. Then a red-eye flight back to Toronto, among the Maple Leafs pandemic-plagued, and self-isolating at the cottage.

At the end of that COVID-positive tunnel, no Olympics on the horizon for another four years.

It’s been a lousy stretch for John Tavares, as the Omicron variant has bushwhacked the NHL and created havoc with the schedule, 67 games postponed coming out of the weekend.

But among the first stricken on the team, the captain was also among the first restored to practice certified on Sunday afternoon. He hadn’t been on the ice with teammates — and there was only a skeletal complement at the Ford Performance Centre — in 11 days.

“Very difficult,” admitted Tavares of having to separate from loved ones, with Christmas bearing down. “You obviously want to be with your family, especially when you’ve been on the road for a while, anticipating and waiting to get home. So, just nice to be with them again and see my two boys and see my wife, spend time with them, catch up when you’ve been away that long. It takes a toll, but it was necessary to protect the people around you.”

The Leafs had seemed to be navigating this most recent COVID surge fairly well, until they got to Calgary more than a week ago. Then the positive tests began racking up during the road trip from hell. By the weekend, 14 players and seven staff members, including coach Sheldon Keefe, were on the protocol list, their farm team even more severely impacted — 24 players and five who tested positive. Which would have left the Leafs with a case of the roster shorts, on defence and in goal, if they had to play the Penguins Wednesday at Scotiabank Arena. That one, though, was postponed late Sunday.

This, as Tavares emphasized, is the nature of the pandemic beast, teams scrambling and the league schedule-makers presented with the enormous mess of reslotting games. “Obviously, you don’t want to go on protocol. But also knowing the world we’re living in here, for a while now, and what things have looked like for us as players in the league, what’s gone on this season and previous years.”

He woke up two Saturdays ago, after testing positive, feeling like his head was in a vise, sore all over. “Things improved as the day went on. I had a much better sleep Saturday night.” Some symptoms began to recede the next day, although that was when taste and smell went poof. Segregated from teammates who hadn’t yet been infected, the positives had been booked on a separate flight. Until, at the last minute, the plane’s pilot declared discomfort with ferrying those Leafs home. More helter-skelter and finally an overnight flight was secured, landing early Monday morning. Except “home” was still a faraway place for those with families waiting.

So Tavares took himself off to a cottage north of the city until the contagion risk passed, able to work out alone a few days, get a sweat on. “Fortunately it wasn’t too bad for myself. It’s been a lot more difficult for others at times.”
 
zeke said:


Thing is with 5 days before the next game a bunch more will be back.

Date put on protocols (return date in brackets):

17th: Tavares (26th), Kerfoot (27th), Spezza (27th), Simmonds (27th)

18th: Brodie, Campbell, Dermott
19th:
20th:
21st: Kampf, Mrazek, Mikheyev, Sandin
22nd:
23rd: Rielly
24th: Nylander
25th:
26th: Muzzin


So if we're looking at ~10days to clear then Campbell Brodie and Dermott should definitely be back next game and probably Kampf Mrazek Mikheyev and Sandin too. That's assuming that none of them got really sick.

But Rielly, Willy, and Muzzin will definitely miss a couple more games.


So a decent chance of seeing this next game. Asterisks are the most likely to not make it.

Bunting - Matthews - Marner
Kerfoot - Tavares - Kase
Engvall - Kampf* - Mikheyev*
Ritchie - Spezza - Simmonds

Brodie - Holl
Sandin* - Liljegren
Dermott - Biega

Campbell
Mrazek*

The thing is if they bring back Mitch I don't know how the team fits under the cap.

Maybe if Sandin's knee is still injured they can move him to ltir. And Lilly can be sent down. But that means they're out of the lineup.
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Are we looking at 10 days though? The league rule says 10 days after symptoms. What if someone was asymptotic?
 
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Anthrax442 said:
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Yeah, at least we've got the juniors to watch.
 
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