Saturday's Canucks game against Senators postponed

2 years ago  /  The Province Hockey

• Both teams are healthy enough to play but the league is citing financial reasons — public health officials have restricted capacity at Rogers Arena to 50 per cent — as the reason why yet another game was being postponed.
• Canucks forward Tanner Pearson said the decision to postpone another game was frustrating.
• A game against the New York Islanders scheduled for Wednesday was previously postponed and the Canucks haven’t played since last Saturday in Seattle.
• It’s not up to us whether we play or not.” / Saturday’s game at Rogers Arena was supposed to be played before a 50 per cent capacity crowd, in line with current B.C.
• … Ultimately everyone felt it was the right decision for the NHL to postpone tomorrow’s game.” The Vancouver Warriors, the National Lacrosse League team owned by Canucks Sports and Entertainment, are still playing a home game Friday night.
• The NHL is no longer allowing its players to play at the Winter Olympics, so the 15-day break in the schedule that was originally set to allow selected players to go to Beijing will now be used to re-schedule the bulk of games that have been postponed for COVID-19 protocol pressures and crowd capacity restrictions.
• A lot of the games we’re going to be missing are home games, so at least we’ll be home for them.” The Senators were also scheduled to play in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg in the next week, but the NHL also postponed next week’s game in Winnipeg, citing crowd capacity restrictions.
• The Senators were meant to open their road trip Thursday in Seattle, but that game was postponed earlier this week because Ottawa suddenly had nine players on the COVID-19 protocol list
• From a scheduling perspective, having games in Vancouver and Seattle both postponed makes the logistics around another western road trip for the Senators easier to swallow
• The Senators have already had 11 games postponed this season, making Saturday’s the 12th

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