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#781 AllseeingEye

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Posted 16 December 2021 - 03:46 PM

Players dropping like flies all over the league today; growing calls from many of them to pause the season until after Christmas. Have to think NHL participation in the Olympics is on very thin ice now, excuse the pun.



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Posted 17 December 2021 - 07:47 AM

The NHL has postponed Saturday's game between Boston and Montreal (in Montreal) amid a rise in COVID-19 cases around the league.

The league said a makeup date for the game hasn't been finalized. The Canadiens play again Monday at the New York Islanders. There was no word from the league on the Bruins' game Sunday at Ottawa.



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Posted 17 December 2021 - 11:23 AM

Paul Maurice has resigned as head coach of the Winnipeg Jets, the team announced Friday.

 

Assistant coach Dave Lowry will take over duties on an interim basis. Winnipeg is 13-10-5 this season.

 

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Maurice told reporters Friday morning it was his decision to step down.

 

"This is a good team, I'm a good coach ... But sometimes you can only push so far," Maurice said, per Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman. "Sometimes a team needs a new voice. They haven't quit on me but need a different voice. It's the right time for it, and I know that."

 

"I love these guys. I love this place. I know that it's time, and that's a good thing for the Jets. It's also a really, really good thing for me," Maurice added, according to NHL.com's Nick Cotsonika.

 

Maurice signed a three-year extension in 2020 worth $3 million per season, according to CapFriendly.

 

 

 

https://www.thescore...hl/news/2253723

 

Dave Lowry used to be the Victoria Royals coach.

 

Why would a guy at 13-10 quit?  Odd.


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Posted 17 December 2021 - 02:09 PM

The Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche and Florida Panthers have all been shut down until after the holiday break due to COVID concerns, the National Hockey League announced.

A decision on when each team's training facilities will re-open will be made by the League and the NHLPA in the coming days. The League is in the process of reviewing and revising all three teams' regular-season schedules.



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Posted 18 December 2021 - 11:25 AM

Vancouver Canucks postpone Saturday night game

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman confirms the Vancouver Canucks vs. Toronto Maple Leafs game on Dec. 18 has been postponed. Five Canucks players have been placed into the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol, including defenceman Tyler Myers just today. Vancouver is in the midst of a six-game winning streak.

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Posted 18 December 2021 - 11:27 AM

I can’t believe what a difference this new coach has made.
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Posted 18 December 2021 - 01:50 PM

I can’t believe what a difference this new coach has made.

 

"Attitude". Travis Green used to prowl around the bench looking like someone stole his dog - either that or he hadn't taken a poop in a month. He always looked miserable and I can only imagine what he was like if a player made a mistake or didn't do something exactly the way Green wanted it to be done.

 

Boudreau OTOH is very experienced as a coach (which Green was not when he was hired, and it showed), outgoing, funny, great in front of the media - which Green was most assuredly not - and if you watch BB run a practice on the ice with the players he's always joking with them, teaching them, but in a relaxed confident manner. Green always looked like he was about to snap....


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Posted 18 December 2021 - 02:03 PM

The NHL has postponed two games each for the Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs as COVID-19 case counts continue to rise throughout the league.

 

A matchup between the Canucks and Leafs scheduled for Saturday, and Sunday games between the Canucks and Arizona Coyotes and the Leafs and Seattle Kraken have been pushed back indefinitely.

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/s...-2021-1.6291461


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Posted 18 December 2021 - 02:31 PM

2. In the headline, I call this “lockdown pain” as opposed to COVID pain. Why? The NHL has about 90 players now on COVIC protocol. They’re all out for a substantial length of time, which has caused the cancellation of games and a watering down of existing games. But the issue now isn’t the health impacts of COVID itself. Almost all of these players — or all of these players — are either asymptomatic or are experiencing mild symptoms. In other words, their youth, their excellent fitness and their fully vaccinated status are doing what we’d hope they would do: protecting them from any kind of serious outcome of COVID. In other years if these players were this healthy they’d almost certainly still be suiting up for games and no one would think anything of it. But because the fear of COVID is so strong in a large group of people, we’re still taking extremely restrictive and punitive action when young and healthy people get the disease. Is it not time for that to end, for the NHL to stop all testing of non-symptomatic players? I would suggest it is.

 

 

 

3. You could argue that if they get sick, the players will threaten spread to others. This is a fair point. It’s not unreasonable. But I will offer a counter-argument, my own take, that at this point anyone in North America who wants to be fully vaccinated is fully vaccinated. They’re also able to get booster shots. In other words, they’re highly protected from COVID, perhaps as protected as they will ever be. And, after almost two years of this mess, folks are also versed in how to protect themselves from COVID, through physical distancing and isolation if they’re highly vulnerable or around someone who is, and through changes to diet and fitness regimes that can greatly lessen obesity, which also offers solid protection from the worst outcomes. The argument that it’s time to get on with our regular lives — save for some hideous and healthcare system-threatening impact from the Omicron variant — has never been stronger. My own take is that — outside of an Omicron melt down — it’s now time to do what Sweden did from the start, and learn to live with the virus with minimal lockdown measures and a reliance on the vaccines, common sense and personal responsibility to get us through. How did this work out for Sweden? Poorly at first, as they had a high death rate, but since early June their death rate has been flat. As other jurisdictions have had third, fourth and fifth waves, Sweden so far has not.

 

 

 

4. It’s too early to tell which direction the Omicron variant will take us. Some say it’s going to be the worst wave yet and crash our healthcare systems like never before, as this highly contagious variant both hammers the unvaccinated and also breaks through into the vaccinated population and produces enough outcomes to make a difference. But the early news out of South Africa, where the variant first took hold, is more hopeful than that, with leading physicians saying almost all cases have been asymptomatic or mild, with their healthcare system still on its feet, and with some even hoping that this variant will act as a form of inoculation, that if most of us get it we won’t get that sick but we’ll be protected from future more virulent variants of COVID. Of course, South Africa has a much younger and less obese population than Western nations, and it’s also had an exceedingly high level of previous COVID spread, which bolsters immunity greatly. We still don’t know how Omicron will impact our own society, one that is uniquely vulnerable to COVID because we’re older and less physically fit, on average, than other nations, and also because our highly-complex healthcare system, with its high levels of care and many rules of care, is vulnerable to being overwhelmed, with just 150 to 300 COVID patients in ICU able to overwhelm our system in Alberta, a province of 4.4 million. Our healthcare workers are outstanding, but they’re getting burnt out by a system that hasn’t been able to adapt rapidly to the threat of COVID — and anyone opposing all forms of lockdown can’t get around that fact.

 

 

 

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Posted 21 December 2021 - 07:44 AM

Should come as no surprise to anyone but I'm hearing the NHL and NHLPA have now agreed that NHL players will not participate in the Beijing Olympics, apparently to be announced tomorrow or Thursday. Should just cancel the 2022 Olympics altogether IMO....


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Posted 21 December 2021 - 08:13 AM

There are no plans yet to limit spectators at the world junior men’s hockey championship in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta.

 

https://globalnews.c...covid-edmonton/

 

Ontario cut capacity at sports venues to 50 per cent and the Montreal Canadiens played in an empty Bell Centre on Thursday in an effort slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

 

“We speak daily with the province, with Alberta Health and with Alberta Health Services,” said Dean McIntosh, Hockey Canada’s vice-president of events, on Friday.

 

“They’re monitoring closely what’s going on in other provinces. We’ve had conversations around what that could look like, but at this point, nothing more than that.

 

“There’s no plan right now to limit fans. We continue to move forward with the plan for full buildings.”


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Posted 30 December 2021 - 12:42 AM

7 wins in a row and back to .500.

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Posted 29 March 2022 - 03:29 AM

-- Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has died from an illness, the team said Monday night. He was 62.

 

The team announced Melnyk's death with a statement from his family that mentioned "an illness he faced with determination and courage.'' The statement did not explain what the illness was, and a team spokesman did not immediately respond to a message seeking additional details.

 

Melnyk had a liver transplant in 2015 after a public campaign for a donor. He had owned the Senators since 2003, when he bought the NHL club for $92 million. Ottawa reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2007, losing in five games to the Anaheim Ducks.

 

The Toronto native was involved in other businesses around Canada and in 2010 had an estimated net worth of $1.21 billion. Melnyk bought the Senators after Rod Bryden's deal to reacquire the franchise was unsuccessful.

 

 

 

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Posted 20 June 2022 - 02:54 AM

CBC:

 

 

 

 

Hockey Canada received $14M in federal funds over the past 2 years, documents reveal   Hockey Canada, one of the country's richest sporting organizations, received $14 million in federal government support in 2020 and 2021, including $3.4 million in emergency COVID-19 subsidies, according to financial statements obtained by CBC News.

The COVID-19 funds helped hockey's not-for-profit national governing body book a $13.2-million budget surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021 — further padding a collection of stocks, bonds, cash and other assets then worth in excess of $153 million. The organization reported a $3.2-million loss in 2020, due to declining market values for its investments, versus an $18.1-million surplus in 2019.

Hockey Canada's finances will be front and centre on Monday, when three current and former executives — including Tom Renney, the organization's outgoing chief operating officer, who is set to retire on July 1 — are scheduled to testify on Parliament Hill before the standing committee on Canadian heritage.

Politicians from all parties are seeking to establish whether public funds were used to settle a $3.55-million lawsuit brought by a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by eight former Canadian Hockey League players following a Hockey Canada Foundation event in London, Ont., in June 2018.

Her statement of claim says some of the assailants — identified only as John Doe 1 through 8 — were members of Canada's national junior team, which had captured IIHF World Championship gold six months before.

The woman has not been named, and her allegations have not been proven in court. But news of the lawsuit, first reported last month by TSN, has reverberated through the hockey world and beyond. Pascale St-Onge, the federal minister of sport, has ordered a forensic audit of Hockey Canada's finances.

"What I want to know and what I think all Canadians want to know is, was there any public funds used to cover up that horrible story of collective rape?" St-Onge told reporters earlier this month after ordering the review. "The other thing that Canadians want to know is how could such an important organization make sure that their players are not accountable for these allegations."

The National Hockey League is conducting its own investigation to determine if any of its current players were among those who were accused. Twenty-two members of the 2017-18 junior squad were NHL draft picks.


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Posted 22 June 2022 - 11:25 AM

Hockey Canada's federal funding is being frozen in the wake of the national organization's handling of an alleged sexual assault and out-of-court settlement.

 

Minster for Sport Pascale St-Onge said in a statement Wednesday that Hockey Canada will only have funding restored once it discloses the recommendations of improvement provided by a third-party law firm hired to investigate the alleged incident four years ago.

 

Hockey Canada must also become signatories to the Office of the Integrity Commissioner, a new government agency with the power to independently investigate abuse complaints and sanction inappropriate behaviour.

 

"Hockey Canada will receive no more payments or new funding from Sport Canada until they comply with these conditions," St-Onge's statement read.

 

 

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/s...nding-1.6497543


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Posted 27 June 2022 - 11:30 AM

CityNews Vancouver:

 

 

 

 

Roberto Luongo, Sedins named to Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2022

 

The former long-time Vancouver Canucks goalie and the iconic Swedish twins received the honour in each of their first year of eligibility. 

Luongo was the 2011 William M. Jennings Trophy winner but never won a Vezina despite being a three-time finalist. He didn’t win a Stanley Cup either, however, he backstopped Canada to gold at Vancouver 2010 in front of the home fans.

The identical twins, born roughly six minutes apart on Sept. 26, 1980 in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, became the first set of siblings to both hit the 1,000-point plateau in the NHL. They played their entire NHL careers in Vancouver.


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Posted 29 June 2022 - 06:05 AM

This might not be going away for the guys that are currently in the NHL.

 

 

 

 

 

Some major corporations are putting their Hockey Canada sponsorships on ice.

 

Scotiabank said Tuesday the pause will last until it’s confident the right steps are taken to improve the culture within the sport.

 

Retail giant Canadian Tire and telecommunications ­company Telus followed suit later in the day, with both withdrawing support from the upcoming world junior hockey championship.

 

The developments come after the federal government froze public funding to the national federation last week in response to its handling of an alleged sexual assault and out-of-court settlement.

 

Hockey Canada quietly ­settled a lawsuit last month after a woman claimed she was assaulted by members of the country’s 2018 gold-medal winning world junior hockey team at a gala and golf function four years ago in London, Ont.

 

 

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Posted 22 July 2022 - 09:04 AM

Hockey Canada says members of its 2003 men’s world junior hockey championship team are being investigated for a group sexual assault.

 

The national sports organization says it learned of the alleged incident on Thursday evening after being contacted by a reporter seeking comment on the alleged assault.

 

Hockey Canada says it has immediately contacted Halifax Regional Police about the allegations because Halifax was the co-host city of the 2003 world junior hockey championship.

 

The national hockey organization says it also contacted Sport Canada and informed it of the allegations.

 

 

https://everythinggp...xual-assault-2/

 

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday there needs to be a “real reckoning” at Hockey Canada as the organization continues to deal with the fallout related to its handling of the alleged sexual assault in June 2018 and out-of-court settlement.


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Posted 22 July 2022 - 02:08 PM

London, Ont., police to reopen criminal probe into 2018 sex assault claims against world junior team members

https://www.cbc.ca/n...laims-1.6529367

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Posted 22 July 2022 - 07:37 PM

I'm sorry if she remembered it differently. JT 2015.


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