BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

THE NHL WILL SHUT DOWN FROM 12/22 THRU 12/25 AND WILL REOPEN FACILITIES ON 12/26.

TUESDAY'S GAMES WILL BE PLAYED PENDING NO COVID OUTBREAKS.

As I stated earlier, WHAT good will that do? The virus isn't going to be gone in 3 days. The League needs to change their policies on testing or this crap will be occurring all season long. 

@GASportsDoc

 IF YOU ARE VAXXED AND ASYMPTOMATIC YOU SHOULD NOT BE TESTED.

They might even shut down until New Years 

Considering the NHL has a very high vaccination rate they have handled the situation poorly. The vaccines are working so let them do their jobs. Only if a player becomes sick should that player sit. If people are unvaccinated that are working with the players the onus is on them to protect themselves. I don't care about getting tested if I am not sick ( stuck 3 times so I won't have to worry). We want Hockey  YES! YES! YES! 

@Hunter44

 EXCEPT FOR THE FACT YOU CAN STILL TEST POSITIVE WITH NO SYMPTOMS AND THUS HAVE TO SIT OUT IN THE PROTOCOLS.

NO NEED TO TEST PEOPLE WHO ARE ASYMPTOMATIC.

YOU DON'T GO TO THE DOCTOR WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL SICK.

Tired of beating this dead horse, but why hasn't other hockey leagues shut down? KHL, AHL, etc. Better yet, why hasn't the NBA, NFL or NCAA shut down? There is some back room Gary shit going on here and it smells. Last I am talking about it this week, it's Christmas. 

@GASportsDoc

 I THINK PART OF IT MIGHT HAVE TO DO WITH TRAVEL BEING RESTRICTED BETWEEN THE BORDER. I AM ALSO HOPING THEY ARE USING THE DOWNTIME TO REVAMP THEIR TESTING PROTOCOLS LIKE THE NFL DID.

You shouldn't be tested period

For what?

People get sick

It will happen until the end of time 

 Had to look that shit up...now that is funny as hell. 

[Quote: Originally Posted by GASportsDoc]Quote Originally Posted by Polar_Bear: Books available on Amazon about the Omicron variant, all published between November 27th and December 2nd....do the math    Had to look that shit up...now that is funny as hell.[/Quote]

Are you guys tryin' to say books were already in DA WORKS...maybe even boxed and ready to go???????

WTF...beam me up, Scotty!!!  Mr Scott!!!.......Mr Scott?!?!?!  Frikken microchip's been disabled!!!!!

NHL PLAYERS ARE NOT GOING TO GO TO THE OLYMPICS.

@jimc0911

That's a guarantee for sure 

But the way things are going no one will be going to Olympics and I'm not just talking about Western delegates 

Back to back Winter Olympics in Asia  how they pull that off ?

Beijing the new hotbed of Alpine skiing and curling 

@I-Got-5-On-It

 IT'S ACTUALLY OFFICIAL.

Hey Doc,

This isn't gonna make you feel any better about the current state of affairs, but I tell ya...G-Mish (which he's told his agent to use in any future job searches on his behalf) is already down with moving over to CEO at Ringling Brothers/B&B Circus, which will be back on the road in 2023 (without animals...I kid you not...without animals).  The last check off box to get the deal rolling is G-Mish getting a piece of each box of Barnum's Animal Crackers sold!!!

After the Preds beat the Blackhawks last Friday, he was seen in a Smashville speakeasy getting sma...uh, getting wasted on Lagavulin and was heard to be throwing a lot of shade on the league and the owners.  Saying they were no different than the circus, so it made perfect sense for him to make the lateral move over to circus entertainment.  And he kept bringing up the "Animal Crackers" part of the deal, which he said would be huge.

You have a Happy and Merry,

Hey Ju_lie,

That's probably an Even Money bet right now...and soon it'll be up on the board in Lost Wages.  I'd be willing to go -120 taking your side.

What happens if you paid for all these NHL packages to watch games? They should give a partial refund as I've already missed out on so many games and it will likely get worse. 

@Coin86

 I WOULD IMAGINE THERE WON'T BE A DISCOUNT IF THE GAMES GET MADE UP.  

Holy fuk that is crazy!  

This is definitely fishy. 

And I had a hard time watching that Browns game yesterday. All kinds of players on both sides were out but they played to what looked like a packed building. 

Hockey... we have to shut it down. 

I want to say things will turn around but it won't. After this omicron there will be another variant and it will keep going and the people will be asked to get more boosters and who even knows what is in those boosters. And the select few will profit off this whole thing more and more. 

I hope there is some kind of collapse here as this as clearly shown that the government is already too involved in our daily lives., They know too much about us and are trying to force us into acting irrationally and making stupid decisions from the mental drain of COVID. 

At some point heads need to go flying. This isn't what the government should be here for. 

And people want to watch hockey not listen to a jackass like Bettman. He's probably being bought off by those mega companies. 

I read that Pfizer and Moderna alone make 1 thousand dollars in profit every single second from these shots. And they want more. 

At jim, how will they make up all these games? Will the season be expanded or what will happen in your mind? I see another variant after this one and then another one until you have your 25 booster shots. No end in sight. 

LET THEM PLAY HOCKEY. This is absolute horsesh!t. I want to see record being broken. 

Now I'm starting to get into KHL even though the games are being played very late here.