NHL announces postponement of Saturday's Bruins-Canadiens game
The National Hockey League announced on Friday morning that Saturday's contest between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens has been postponed.
Boston currently has seven players in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol, hence why the NHL opted to play it safe and postpone tomorrow night's game at the Bell Centre. The Bruins players in NHL protocol are, Patrice Bergeron, Anton Blidh, Trent Frederic, Brad Marchand, Craig Smith, Oskar Steen, and Jeremy Swayman.
In a statement, the NHL said, "The National Hockey League announced today that tomorrow's game in Montreal between the Canadiens and Boston Bruins has been postponed. A make-up date for the game has yet to be established. The Canadiens will resume their regular-season schedule on Monday, Dec. 20, at the New York Islanders."
As mentioned in the statement, Montreal's next game is set for Monday against the New York Islanders. For Boston, their next scheduled game is Sunday against the Ottawa Senators, but that game could be up in the air given their COVID outbreak.
SCHEDULE UPDATE: The @CanadiensMTL vs. @NHLBruins game scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 18, has been postponed. https://t.co/aYJBZOsfzY pic.twitter.com/bO9tukFVyZ— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 17, 2021
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| Sean Monahan | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Jesper Bratt | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Frederick Gaudreau | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jack Hughes | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Mackenzie Weegar | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Kent Johnson | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alexander Wennberg | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Mitchell Chaffee | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anthony Cirelli | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Coronato | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Marcus Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Nick Foligno | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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| Brandon Hagel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Stefan Noesen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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Devils | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 28 | |
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