The NHL has announced another postponement, this time for a game scheduled between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens for Saturday night. This comes after the Bruins played undermanned Thursday and the Canadiens played in an empty building. There are COVID and hockey-related revenue concerns to be considered by the league after the Bruins have continued to place more and more players into the protocol.
Just before the Bruins took the ice Thursday, Oskar Steen was placed in the COVID protocol, joining six others from the team including top players like Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron. The league has maintained throughout this season that they’ll only start postponing games if the spread seems to be out of control, which it appears to be in Boston.
The Bruins are one of the teams that went west and played the Calgary Flames recently, a team that has had such widespread positive testing that they’ve completely shut down. Like in the case of the Carolina Hurricanes, who placed a good chunk of players in the protocol but then had multiple days with no more positive tests, the hope is that a lengthy postponement won’t be necessary for the Bruins. That obviously remains to be seen.
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