{"id":72424,"date":"2020-04-01T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=72424"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:37","slug":"ottawa-senators-cases-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/04\/01\/ottawa-senators-cases-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Have Four New Cases of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> have announced today that four additional members of their organisation have tested positive for COVID-19. This news comes less than two weeks after two players tested positive for the Coronavirus on the Senators\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Four additional members of the Ottawa Senators organization who travelled to California before the NHL season pause tested positive for COVID-19. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s7xyC1t7Lx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/s7xyC1t7Lx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z3N5QcdIA5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/z3N5QcdIA5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ottawa Senators (@Senators) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Senators\/status\/1245414306075811840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>More COVID-19 Cases for Senators<\/h2>\n<p>Since the NHL postponed its regular season, Ottawa has tested eight of its players and employees. All eight were part of the 52 members, who travelled to California for Ottawa\u2019s West coast swing in early March. The other 44 showed no signs of symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator\u2019s 3-2 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> at the Staples Center, was the last game before the season\u2019s postponement. The trigger, which called for the suspension of sports across North America, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z1h6Vq-KHOo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rudy Gobert<\/a>, the first professional athlete in the NBA, testing positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Since the season has been on hiatus, only the Ottawa Senators and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, have been vocal in their public updates on player testing. Both the Senators and Avalanche have two positive player tests each. They were also among the last teams to travel to California during the burgeoning spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, both played the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> at the SAP center in March. The Sharks later had one of their part-time employees confirmed as testing positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose played home games on 5<sup>th <\/sup>(<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>), 7<sup>th<\/sup> (Senators) and 8<sup>th<\/sup> (Avalanche) of March. This was despite instruction on the day of the Wild game, from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/03\/12\/sap-center-employee-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which recommended a moratorium on public gatherings of over 1,000 people.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>No Current Sufferers<\/h3>\n<p>The Senators organisation confirmed that all six members have been kept in self-isolation and have since recovered from the virus. The Avalanche, on the other hand, have stated nobody else on their roster is exhibiting symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IgorEronko\/status\/1240696807262285824\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Igor Eronko<\/a>, a Russian journalist and reporter for the KHL, the first player to test positive in the Sens camp was former Maple Leaf, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zaitsni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Zaitsev<\/a><\/strong>. The Senators have not confirmed this assertion. The other three confirmed players with positive tests on the Senators and Avalanche have not been identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/03\/What-the-Ottawa-Senators-logo-and-jerseys-might-look-like-in-2019-780x405-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators have announced today that four additional members of their organisation have tested positive for COVID-19. This news comes less than two weeks after two players tested positive for the Coronavirus on the Senators\u2019 roster. 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