Unvaccinated NHL players will soon not have to worry about Canadian Border
It's been a long time coming, but NHL players who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 soon won't have to worry about crossing the Canadian border. The Canadian government has confirmed that all vaccine mandates will be dropped, along with several other measures such as masking on trains and planes, in October.
Under current rules, unvaccinated players crossing the border into Canada would be subjected to mandatory testing and would have to isolate for up to 14 days before being able to play. That made travel to Canada for unvaccinated players on American teams essentially pointless as they'd miss any games played anyway.
"The removal of border measures has been facilitated by a number of factors, including modelling that indicates that Canada has largely passed the peak of the Omicron BA.4- and BA.5-fuelled wave, Canada's high vaccination rates, lower hospitalization and death rates, as well as the availability and use of vaccine boosters (including new bivalent formulation), rapid tests, and treatments for COVID-19," said Canada's government in a release.
The NHL had previously said all but four of its players were vaccinated. These new regulations coming in October will also impact the NBA and MLB.
Source: ESPN
| POLL | ||
SEPTEMBRE 26 | 159 ANSWERS Unvaccinated NHL players will soon not have to worry about Canadian Border Do you support the dropping of all COVID mandates at the Canada-US border | ||
| Yes, drop it all | 68 | 42.8 % |
| No, some should remain | 41 | 25.8 % |
| Not sure | 50 | 31.4 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Patrick Maroon | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lukas Reichel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Connor Murphy | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Craig Smith | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Nolan Allan | - | - | - | |
| Joey Anderson | - | - | - | |
| Emil Andrae | - | - | - | |
| Connor Bedard | - | - | - | |
| Tyler Bertuzzi | - | - | - | |
| Bobby Brink | - | - | - | |
| T.J. Brodie | - | - | - | |
| Noah Cates | - | - | - | |
| Sean Couturier | - | - | - | |
| Louis Crevier | - | - | - | |
| Jason Dickinson | - | - | - | |
| Ryan Donato | - | - | - | |
| Joel Farabee | - | - | - | |
| Tyson Foerster | - | - | - | |
| Nick Foligno | - | - | - | |
| Morgan Frost | - | - | - | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 20 | 17 | 3 | - | 34 | |
Wild | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 29 | |
Hurricanes | 19 | 14 | 5 | - | 28 | |
Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
Capitals | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 27 | |
Golden Knights | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
Flames | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||