2021-2022 NHL Thread

[herman]

What's a team going to do if one of their high paid stars refuses the vaccine?  There has to be some dumb asses out there in the NHLPA...I know the Leafs already said everyone will be vaxxed, I want to see someone on another team refuse just to see the fall out.

Hockey culture is pretty obstinate. "Fall in line, for the good of the team", which we'd normally find bland, might actually be what pushes the NHL to be more highly vaccinated than most sports. The COVID policy is really quite a good template for other industries to follow, really pigeonholing the anti-vaxxers into extreme inconvenience.

In the dressing room, can you imagine a player saying he'd rather go through tests every 72 hours, no dining with comrades, no leaving the house at home or being completely segregated on the road (including all the maintenance stuff on body/equipment) and significantly inconveniencing the staff that assist you? I think he might last about 3 days before relenting, and at that point, there's another period of waiting for the second dose.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437442782151446539
https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437446416872484879
This is a very narrow labour market to self-select out of.

https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437450551998963712
Ah, not a self-selection, by the strictest of definitions

?We had to part ways with him because he couldn?t do his job. We need a coach,? Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. ?If you?re not vaccinated, you?re not allowed within 12 feet of the players. You can?t do your job as a coach. He couldn?t be in the locker room, couldn?t be in the coaches? room, couldn?t be on the bench, couldn?t be on the plane with us?we need a coach.?

 

[Zee]

What's a team going to do if one of their high paid stars refuses the vaccine?  There has to be some dumb asses out there in the NHLPA...I know the Leafs already said everyone will be vaxxed, I want to see someone on another team refuse just to see the fall out.

Hockey culture is pretty obstinate. "Fall in line, for the good of the team", which we'd normally find bland, might actually be what pushes the NHL to be more highly vaccinated than most sports. The COVID policy is really quite a good template for other industries to follow, really pigeonholing the anti-vaxxers into extreme inconvenience.

In the dressing room, can you imagine a player saying he'd rather go through tests every 72 hours, no dining with comrades, no leaving the house at home or being completely segregated on the road (including all the maintenance stuff on body/equipment) and significantly inconveniencing the staff that assist you? I think he might last about 3 days before relenting, and at that point, there's another period of waiting for the second dose.

Tony DeAngelo step right up!

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437442782151446539
https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437446416872484879
This is a very narrow labour market to self-select out of.

https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1437450551998963712
Ah, not a self-selection, by the strictest of definitions

?We had to part ways with him because he couldn?t do his job. We need a coach,? Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. ?If you?re not vaccinated, you?re not allowed within 12 feet of the players. You can?t do your job as a coach. He couldn?t be in the locker room, couldn?t be in the coaches? room, couldn?t be on the bench, couldn?t be on the plane with us?we need a coach.?

Is there an employment version of the Herman Cain Award?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/Canes/status/1437816596072960018

 

[herman]

No comment yet from NYRFan92360244

 

[herman]

What's a team going to do if one of their high paid stars refuses the vaccine?  There has to be some dumb asses out there in the NHLPA...I know the Leafs already said everyone will be vaxxed, I want to see someone on another team refuse just to see the fall out.

Hockey culture is pretty obstinate. "Fall in line, for the good of the team", which we'd normally find bland, might actually be what pushes the NHL to be more highly vaccinated than most sports. The COVID policy is really quite a good template for other industries to follow, really pigeonholing the anti-vaxxers into extreme inconvenience.

In the dressing room, can you imagine a player saying he'd rather go through tests every 72 hours, no dining with comrades, no leaving the house at home or being completely segregated on the road (including all the maintenance stuff on body/equipment) and significantly inconveniencing the staff that assist you? I think he might last about 3 days before relenting, and at that point, there's another period of waiting for the second dose.

https://twitter.com/marklazerus/status/1438629065108381702

 

[princedpw]

What's a team going to do if one of their high paid stars refuses the vaccine?  There has to be some dumb asses out there in the NHLPA...I know the Leafs already said everyone will be vaxxed, I want to see someone on another team refuse just to see the fall out.

Hockey culture is pretty obstinate. "Fall in line, for the good of the team", which we'd normally find bland, might actually be what pushes the NHL to be more highly vaccinated than most sports. The COVID policy is really quite a good template for other industries to follow, really pigeonholing the anti-vaxxers into extreme inconvenience.

In the dressing room, can you imagine a player saying he'd rather go through tests every 72 hours, no dining with comrades, no leaving the house at home or being completely segregated on the road (including all the maintenance stuff on body/equipment) and significantly inconveniencing the staff that assist you? I think he might last about 3 days before relenting, and at that point, there's another period of waiting for the second dose.

https://twitter.com/marklazerus/status/1438629065108381702

The sad thing is that 99% vaccinated or better is not the norm.

 

[Bender]

What's a team going to do if one of their high paid stars refuses the vaccine?  There has to be some dumb asses out there in the NHLPA...I know the Leafs already said everyone will be vaxxed, I want to see someone on another team refuse just to see the fall out.

Hockey culture is pretty obstinate. "Fall in line, for the good of the team", which we'd normally find bland, might actually be what pushes the NHL to be more highly vaccinated than most sports. The COVID policy is really quite a good template for other industries to follow, really pigeonholing the anti-vaxxers into extreme inconvenience.

In the dressing room, can you imagine a player saying he'd rather go through tests every 72 hours, no dining with comrades, no leaving the house at home or being completely segregated on the road (including all the maintenance stuff on body/equipment) and significantly inconveniencing the staff that assist you? I think he might last about 3 days before relenting, and at that point, there's another period of waiting for the second dose.

https://twitter.com/marklazerus/status/1438629065108381702

The sad thing is that 99% vaccinated or better is not the norm.

I mean, getting paid millions of dollars could nudge a few people back in line [emoji846]

 

[herman]

Meanwhile, from the team we definitely expected this from
https://twitter.com/macklamoureux/status/1438868794680635397

 

[Bender]

Meanwhile, from the team we definitely expected this from
https://twitter.com/macklamoureux/status/1438868794680635397

I'm so, so tired of takes like this.

 

[Kin]

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/32240127/arizona-coyotes-bring-back-kachina-coyote-primary-logo

I approve of this. If you're going to be goofy team in the middle of the desert, embrace it.

 

[Joe S.]

That logo always reminded me of the coyote that spoke to homer when he was having his hot pepper vision.

 

[Kin]

That logo always reminded me of the coyote that spoke to homer when he was having his hot pepper vision.

Well, that's why I think it was always a legitimately cool logo. It was very authentic to that particular southwestern art style that the Simpsons probably took their inspiration from too.  It was weird and location-specific. It would be cool if more logos were like it.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/alisonl/status/1440361599336804355
I have a follow up question

https://twitter.com/alisonl/status/1440361714147463179
Ah

 

[CarltonTheBear]

"Zach's personal choices are dangerous and reckless and we don't want that type of person near our NHL team. Instead he'll mentor our prospects."

 

[Kin]

I think it's really terrific how for years a player would get labelled selfish and not a team guy if he asked for too much money or celebrated a goal too much or read books or slept in or had a weird hair cut or wanted to wear an unconventional jersey number or had a beard or objected to being hazed but the second it's a good ol' boy making a decision that could quite literally harm his teammates the league is like "Well, what are you going to do? Personal choice is sacrosanct".

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/swhyno/status/1440413985631719429

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/swhyno/status/1440413985631719429

Plot twist - it?s Barzal. ;D

 

[Highlander]

That logo always reminded me of the coyote that spoke to homer when he was having his hot pepper vision.

Or the wolf that spoke about the universe on my last peyote trip.