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Leagues as usual? Check out the Russian Hockey League 21:47 - Sep 23 with 1234 viewsVancouverHoop

We may miss full, or even half full stadiums, and canned crowd noises sound silly but do nothing and this is what Covid can do to pro-sports teams and their players:

While the NHL carefully conducts the 2019-20 Stanley Cup Final in a quarantined bubble in Edmonton, the KHL is already well into its 2020-21 regular season. In the face of a global pandemic, the KHL felt they were prepared to conduct a full-fledged season, with inter-country travel and fans in arenas.
The KHL pushed ahead with their plans despite 116 KHL players testing positive for COVID-19 heading into the regular season.
Already, the KHL has run into significant problems, with multiple teams reporting positive COVID-19 cases. For instance, the lone Latvian team in the league, Dinamo Riga, was unable to complete their first road trip through Russia when one of their opponents, Barys Astana, reported 12 cases of COVID-19, causing the game to be postponed. When they returned to Latvia, Riga reported five positive cases of their own, with government officials enforcing a quarantine and demanded that more games be postponed.

Earlier this week, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl forfeited a game against Kunlun Red Star when they simply didn’t show up. Lokomotiv hasn’t confirmed how many positive cases they’ve had, but the entire team has been quarantined.

In most cases, KHL teams with positive COVID-19 cases are not being quarantined and are instead simply replacing their sick players with players from their junior teams.
Reports indicate that “more than half” of the roster for SKA tested positive for COVID-19, as did their coaching staff ahead of their game against Sibir on Wednesday. As a result, SKA iced the youngest lineup in KHL history, as 10 players made their KHL debut.

With no coaches available, SKA’s billionaire vice president, Roman Rotenberg, stepped behind the bench as head coach.
It’s incredible that the game even went ahead as scheduled given these circumstances. The league has been criticized for forcing through games with junior players as well as their decision to hand Finland-based Jokerit Helsinki a forfeit loss when they refused to travel to Minsk, Belarus in the midst of their political unrest.
In addition, the KHL's decision to have fans in arenas without enforcing strict social-distancing or masks seems extremely foolhardy.

Contracting COVID-19 could have unforeseen consequences, as scientists are as yet unsure of the long-term effects of the virus.
Meanwhile, the NHL should be paying close attention to the troubles the KHL is having with their regular season as they make plans for their own 2020-21 season. They simply can’t be as blasé to the dangers of COVID-19 as the KHL has been.

from: Daniel Wagner, Pass it to Bulis
[Post edited 23 Sep 2020 21:50]
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Leagues as usual? Check out the Russian Hockey League on 23:02 - Sep 23 with 1142 viewsBoston

Want to see stone faced Russians at their best, watch the KHL. Dear god those emotonless features don't break even when their team scores and then those fcking white clicky things they like to play with!

Poll: Thank God The Seaons Over.

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