{"id":100643,"date":"2021-02-10T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=100643"},"modified":"2021-02-10T22:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:34:38","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-game-postponed-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/10\/philadelphia-flyers-game-postponed-against-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Game Postponed Against New York Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The February 14th game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/03\/philadelphia-flyers-morgan-frost-to-have-shoulder-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/03\/nhl-rumours-pittsburgh-penguins-new-york-rangers-florida-panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> has been postponed today due to COVID protocol. The National Hockey League has announced the latest postponement via their Public Relations team on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NHL<\/a> announces <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NHLFlyers<\/a>\u2019 game on February 14 is postponed; Targets Monday for team\u2019s return to practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zad4PF9cK2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zad4PF9cK2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0WTkX2tTa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/l0WTkX2tTa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Public Relations (@NHLPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPR\/status\/1359661375618957312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Philadelphia Flyers Game Postponed vs. Rangers<\/h2>\n<p>This is the fourth consecutive Philadelphia Flyers\u2019 game that has been postponed. Previously, Philadelphia had games against both the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/devils\/\" target=\"_self\"> New Jersey Devils<\/a> (twice) rescheduled. These postponements were due to COVID issues on the Flyers&#8217; and Devils&#8217; rosters, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, February 9th, multiple Flyers&#8217; players entered the protocol which has forced the league to pause their season. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/braunju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Braun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giroucl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claude Giroux<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanhetr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Sanheim<\/a> are all on the COVID protocol list in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the New York Rangers have none of their players in the protocol. Their schedule is only affected because of the issues on their opponents&#8217; rosters.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 protocol has ravaged the East Division of late. There are currently 49 players in the COVID protocol throughout the NHL; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl-covid-protocol-list-feb-10-1.1591074\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29 of those players play in the East Division<\/a>. As a result, the league has now postponed 13 games in the East Division over the past two weeks. In total, the NHL has rearranged 34 games because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>The National Hockey League has added new measures and protocols recently in an attempt to curb the continual postponements. These include removing the glass behind the team benches to improve air circulation in the arena and requesting that players do not arrive at the rink more than one hour and 45 minutes before puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, TSN&#8217;s Bob Mackenzie announced tonight before the game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> that the league was also exploring further protocols including rapid testing for players.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Flyers\u2019 next scheduled game is on February 18<sup>th<\/sup> against the New York Rangers. Meanwhile, the New York Rangers are due to play twice more before that game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Bruins<\/a> on Friday, February 12<sup>th<\/sup> and the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, February 16<sup>th<\/sup>. However, given that the Devils themselves have 17 players on the COVID protocol, the likelihood that this game will go ahead is in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Nj7Mq13_Snlk3_NddJumvQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1209727128\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Nj7Mq13_Snlk3_NddJumvQ',sig:'dbm7kKotJC8oYYb3zsH-ZIqCXnH4ptPAMZQ_EzGyw2E=',w:'594px',h:'389px',items:'1209727128',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February 14th game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers has been postponed today due to COVID protocol. The National Hockey League has announced the latest postponement via their Public Relations team on Twitter. The @NHL announces @NHLFlyers\u2019 game on February 14 is postponed; Targets Monday for team\u2019s return to practice. https:\/\/t.co\/Zad4PF9cK2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":100652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,14,34,4548,16],"tags":[90,847,5738,1561,151,6259,955,5996,1167,75],"class_list":["post-100643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","category-flyers","tag-boston-bruins","tag-claude-giroux","tag-hockey-news","tag-justin-braun","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york-rangers-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-philadelphia-flyers-news","tag-travis-sanheim","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}