The NHL is not toying with a possible Valentine’s Day mistake.
Although the Flyers no longer have any players added to the NHL’s COVID protocol list on Wednesday, the team’s Sunday game against Rangers at Madison Square Garden has been postponed.
The Flyers will be out of service until Monday, when they are due to reopen the Virtua Center Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees, New Jersey, to practice.
Here is a part of the NHL statement on Wednesday night:
The Flyers ended up having all four games this week eliminated because of the COVID protocols. His street game on Tuesday night against the Capitals was postponed after Claude Giroux and Justin Braun were added to the COVID protocol list. Travis Sanheim was placed on the COVID protocol list on Sunday and lost the Flyers’ 7-4 victory over the Capitals.
The Flyers trained Monday at the Capital One Arena and ended up leaving Washington, DC, on Tuesday afternoon after the game was postponed.
The Flyers were scheduled to host the Devils on Thursday and Saturday, but those games were postponed on Monday. New Jersey had 17 players on the COVID protocol list on Wednesday and has not played since January 31.
The number of players eliminated from the Flyers because of the COVID protocol did not increase on Wednesday. Giroux, Braun and Sanheim remained on the COVID protocol list.
The postponement of Sunday’s game certainly makes sense from a health and safety point of view, as well as from a logistical point of view with the Flyers’ schedule. The next game scheduled for the Flyers is February 18th (next Thursday) against the Rangers at the Wells Fargo Center. The team then heads to Stateline, Nevada, to play against the Bruins at the NHL Outdoors in Lake Tahoe on February 21st.
Makeup dates for the four postponed Flyers games this week are yet to be defined.
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