{"id":122664,"date":"2021-12-17T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=122664"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:21:17","slug":"boston-bruins-vs-montreal-canadiens-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/12\/17\/boston-bruins-vs-montreal-canadiens-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens game slated for Saturday has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues. Thursday night&#8217;s game with the Philadelphia Flyers at the Bell Centre barred fans from attending. News of the postponement broke Friday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The NHL has postponed Saturday&#39;s game between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqLohgoofI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/VqLohgoofI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1471852666351460352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens Called Off<\/h2>\n<p>The matchup between the archrivals is the latest game to be moved by COVID. Games involving the Calgary Flames <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/12\/13\/calgary-flames-games-postponed-covid-19\/\" target=\"_self\">were postponed<\/a> through Saturday at least due their outbreak. There are around 60 players in COVID-19 protocol at this time. No makeup date has been set at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This was the last home game for the Canadiens for the calendar year. Provincial officials will re-evaluate the situation, but it&#8217;s expected that capacity will be limited for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drouijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Drouin<\/a> expressed concerns about playing a team with so many cases like the Bruins. Boston has seven players listed and more could be added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really comfortable playing against a team that has so many cases of Covid,&#8221; Drouin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/nhl-postpones-canadiens-vs-bruins-game-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to the media<\/a>. &#8220;There are currently seven cases, but there could be three more tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Boston vs Montreal matchup in the 11th postponed this season, but the sixth this week to be pushed back.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>Things are getting worse with the new Omicron variant coming into the picture. The league has introduced a return to the strict protocols that were part of the 2020-21 NHL season. This means mask-wearing, limiting public participation in events outside the rink and more testing. All sports like the NFL, NBA and English Premier League are dealing with this.<\/p>\n<p>Other players have expressed concerns about continuing while cases are climbing. Nashville Predators forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuninlu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Kunin<\/a> was one of those players that thought the NHL should pause for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The recent outbreak may also play a hand in NHL players not going to the Olympics. However, they will look into some solution into making the event happen.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"CSRE6kqAQNNswTeYAG7GeQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1236581369\" 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:'CSRE6kqAQNNswTeYAG7GeQ',sig:'KPHn04XksN9Q9DfWGHhdeCFs3L1VZXsdgRjILmTsF3o=',w:'594px',h:'398px',items:'1236581369',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 Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens game slated for Saturday has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues. Thursday night&#8217;s game with the Philadelphia Flyers at the Bell Centre barred fans from attending. News of the postponement broke Friday morning. BREAKING: The NHL has postponed Saturday&#39;s game between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens.https:\/\/t.co\/VqLohgoofI &mdash; Sportsnet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":122665,"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":[7,5,4547,34,4548],"tags":[6745,4675,585,955],"class_list":["post-122664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2021-22-nhl-schedule","tag-covid-19","tag-jonathan-drouin","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122664","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}