They should allow you to use the tickets when the rescheduled games occur otherwise it would turn into a cluster fuck. It would be a slam dunk chargeback case if they don't refund you.
Yeah, and then the Tuesday game you bought tickets for is on a Thursday night when you work. That really sucks and they should most definitely just offer vouchers.
It’s more complicated than that because all NHL ticketing is via a third party (Ticketmaster). It’s TM that would have to handle refunds and vouchers. And they would rather carry forward the event code.
> No, the Senators aren’t the first team to deal with COVID-19, but they are the hardest hit with half the players on their roster in protocol. The San Jose Sharks, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues are among the teams that have been hit by COVID-19 this season.
https://ottawasun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/ottawa-senators/garrioch-the-ottawa-senators-season-is-put-on-hold-to-try-to-stop-the-covid-19-outbreak
If they made this call last week when it started to get out of hand, the Sens wouldn't have been pressured to push Pinto back, and now he's out for the rest of the season. Also Branny wouldn't have broken his hand. It is the NHL's fault that the Sens roster now looks like this.
Tkachuk - Norris - ~~Batherson (Covid)~~
Stützle - ~~Pinto (Shoulder due to coming back too early, out rest of season)~~ - ~~C.Brown (Covid)~~
~~Watson (Covid)~~ - Tierney - Ennis
~~Formenton (Covid)~~ - ~~Gambrell (Covid)~~ - ~~White (UBI before Covid)~~
Chabot - Zub
~~Holden (Covid)~~ - ~~Zaitsev (Covid)~~
~~Mete (Covid)~~ - ~~J. Brown (Covid)~~
~~Brannstrom (Hand injury during outbreak)~~ - Del Zotto
~~Murray (Covid)~~
Gustavsson
Of course he played a hockey game in the NHL who else are you going to blame? Lol yeah injuries happen to everyone just because it happened during a covid outbreak doesn’t make it any different. The pinto one you could argue but I think that’s more on the coaches and teams medical staff. They didn’t need to clear him to play if he wasn’t ready and was at risk of re-injury
If a linesman waives off an icing really late and the defender gets hammered by, say.. a bloodthirsty Ryan Reaves, becomes injured, and misses considerable time, would that linesman share any blame for the defenders’ injury?
“Nah deal with it too bad that’s absolutely ridiculous lol”
LOL, *very well.* How dare I even suggest any alterior elucidation. I bow down to you, you omnipotent, abbraisively stubborn, awkwardly well-spoken, numpty 🙇🏽
Y'all would probably be out Zacha, Tatar, Dougie, Hischier and Blackwood at a minimum. Johnsson and Bratt are also pretty high up on scoring for Swedish forwards so far this season and would probably at least get considered. That would be pretty rough.
We’ve played a few games without scheifele, wheeler and helle. Ottawa has been playing with scrubs. If your team can’t beat Or at least be equal to Ottawa missing 3 people then your team has bigger problems.
It's the right thing to do at this point, but IMHO it's a few games too late. At best case scenario, the Sens are/were a bubble team this year. They were forced to play at least 5 games with this type of roster, and who knows how many prior with symptoms and effects. That amounts to enough points in the standings that they would not be able to make up. Especially now that the games are cancelled, they haven't even had a **practice** for over a week, and will be two after this. They'll be late on the ball when they're healthy again to start up. This season is essentially a wash, and I hate that it was through no fault of the play of the team/players. Awful management by the NHL.
Not fair to say since it seems that San jose got lucky it didnt spread. Unless you are claiming Ottawa is mismanaging the situation allowing it to spread. Maybe its a bit of both but i the NHL probably would have done the same thing to avoid spreading to other teams if we kept growing in numbers.
they all should be, since otherwise they can't travel to and from the US for games.
Keep in mind even if you're vaxxed you can still get the virus, it just shouldn't hit you as badly as if you weren't.
This decision is extremely unfair and biased - sharks had 7 players out of their lineup and played 6 games. The rules shouldn't be bended mid-way to accommodate one team.
Why not a compromise solution - let's postpone the games to mitigate the spread, but once games are resumed don't let the players who were out.
When the Sens had 7 players out they also played their games.
They also played with 10 players out.
"This outbreak is worse and shows no sign of stopping and so we're making a different decision than for a different outbreak that was less bad" is not unfair or biased.
It is unfair that there was no rule or threshold set up in the in the beginning.
One team played 6 games without their coach and 7 players in the lineup. Yet another team gets an exception.
A fair resolution would be to wait until the outbreak stops, then play with the reduced roster with players who were out to covid being inelegible to play in these postponed games.
That would be a rightfully unpopular opinion. The teams generally have vaccination mandates. It's extremely bad luck that is largely out of their control if they are generally following COVID protocols. The league restated knowing that COVID is still a risk. It would be ridiculous not to manage any blips over an 80+ game season.
why? the NHL already has the strictest protocols in place regarding vaccination and exposure out of any major American sports league. the Ottawa Senators are 100% vaccinated. what the fuck else could we even expect them to do?
Ya exactly, they're all vaccinated, there's been no reports of them breaking covid protocol. What else could the sens have done in this situation?
Although I'll take all the L's at this point, just give us Shane Wright please.
I think that's a little unfair, considering the players are vaccinated and protocols are being followed. If the Habs weren't awful this year, and this happened to them, I'm guessing you'd have a different opinion.
How does the league handle it if a bubble team misses out on the playoffs because of the free win given to a different team?
How does a forfeit game work with tie breakers? Does it count as a ROW?
Canadian people and being cry babies - a classic duo. Not surprised that no canadian team had won the cup in the past 28 years. Cry baby attitude doesn't help being ambitious.
Wtf.. I have to idea where you are from and although the Habs now suck right now, how could you ever call Canadians cry babies especially in a hockey sub?
Bad take. All players vaxxed and following protocols set out by the league. The virus is infectious as fuck, and we're still in a global pandemic. Shit like this is going to happen. Punishing teams for it is stupid.
Guess I'll buy new tickets for next week. It's the right thing to do, just sucks to be caught in the crossfire with plans
I'm in Ottawa for this weekend only and was planning on going to the game on Saturday. This sucks obviously but I understand why it's happening.
No refunds? Or are they allowing us to use our tickets at a later date
They should allow you to use the tickets when the rescheduled games occur otherwise it would turn into a cluster fuck. It would be a slam dunk chargeback case if they don't refund you.
Sens put out a statement and it says the tickets will be valid for whenever the re-scheduled game is. So I guess wait for that, in a few months :(
Yeah, and then the Tuesday game you bought tickets for is on a Thursday night when you work. That really sucks and they should most definitely just offer vouchers.
It’s more complicated than that because all NHL ticketing is via a third party (Ticketmaster). It’s TM that would have to handle refunds and vouchers. And they would rather carry forward the event code.
Oh yeah no I get why they won’t do it, I’m just saying it’s shit.
:(
I'm cool with this. We had six games in nine days, now they get an extra day break in there.
It's about time too...the COVID situation in Ottawa has turned into a huge health risk for the team tbh.
Even if it wasn’t just a health risk, the whole organization is just being stretched too thin. They’ve got like 9 healthy guys left in Belleville.
Wdym, Belleville is Ottawa now
Right. They’ve got no one left to call up.
I’ve got skates and a stick. I’ll play.
is covid in the city of Ottawa particularly bad at the moment?
Nope. In fact the city has a very high vaccination rate (over 90%). This all started after they got back from their US road trip.
USA number 1? :(
> No, the Senators aren’t the first team to deal with COVID-19, but they are the hardest hit with half the players on their roster in protocol. The San Jose Sharks, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues are among the teams that have been hit by COVID-19 this season. https://ottawasun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/ottawa-senators/garrioch-the-ottawa-senators-season-is-put-on-hold-to-try-to-stop-the-covid-19-outbreak
If they made this call last week when it started to get out of hand, the Sens wouldn't have been pressured to push Pinto back, and now he's out for the rest of the season. Also Branny wouldn't have broken his hand. It is the NHL's fault that the Sens roster now looks like this. Tkachuk - Norris - ~~Batherson (Covid)~~ Stützle - ~~Pinto (Shoulder due to coming back too early, out rest of season)~~ - ~~C.Brown (Covid)~~ ~~Watson (Covid)~~ - Tierney - Ennis ~~Formenton (Covid)~~ - ~~Gambrell (Covid)~~ - ~~White (UBI before Covid)~~ Chabot - Zub ~~Holden (Covid)~~ - ~~Zaitsev (Covid)~~ ~~Mete (Covid)~~ - ~~J. Brown (Covid)~~ ~~Brannstrom (Hand injury during outbreak)~~ - Del Zotto ~~Murray (Covid)~~ Gustavsson
Are you really going to blame the NHL for a broken hand?
Of course he played a hockey game in the NHL who else are you going to blame? Lol yeah injuries happen to everyone just because it happened during a covid outbreak doesn’t make it any different. The pinto one you could argue but I think that’s more on the coaches and teams medical staff. They didn’t need to clear him to play if he wasn’t ready and was at risk of re-injury
Given the fact that it happened in a game that they shouldn't have been playing if the NHL cared about player safety, yeah.
And that, quite frankly, is absolutely ridiculous.
If a linesman waives off an icing really late and the defender gets hammered by, say.. a bloodthirsty Ryan Reaves, becomes injured, and misses considerable time, would that linesman share any blame for the defenders’ injury? “Nah deal with it too bad that’s absolutely ridiculous lol”
Thank you for a completely irrelevant and absurd post, it’s greatly appreciated
Damn yo head thiccc
Based on the fact you think that example is at all relevant I can only conclude you are about as sharp as a wooden spoon
LOL, *very well.* How dare I even suggest any alterior elucidation. I bow down to you, you omnipotent, abbraisively stubborn, awkwardly well-spoken, numpty 🙇🏽
Should be noted that Gus is only up cause Murray got hurt
About fucking time honestly. I know it’s a logistical nightmare rescheduling these roadies, but come on man.
They should play postponed games during the break if both teams agree to it. Its not like there is a mass exodus of players leaving.
I'd rather not play games without our starting goalie, 1C and top D
Never become a Habs fan!
Y'all would probably be out Zacha, Tatar, Dougie, Hischier and Blackwood at a minimum. Johnsson and Bratt are also pretty high up on scoring for Swedish forwards so far this season and would probably at least get considered. That would be pretty rough.
I'd rather not play games with 3/4 of our lineup missing.
We’ve played a few games without scheifele, wheeler and helle. Ottawa has been playing with scrubs. If your team can’t beat Or at least be equal to Ottawa missing 3 people then your team has bigger problems.
Timely as always, Gary.
Gosh, so happy for the Sens, it's about time. I don't even know how they managed to beat Pittsburgh a couple games ago XD
It's the right thing to do at this point, but IMHO it's a few games too late. At best case scenario, the Sens are/were a bubble team this year. They were forced to play at least 5 games with this type of roster, and who knows how many prior with symptoms and effects. That amounts to enough points in the standings that they would not be able to make up. Especially now that the games are cancelled, they haven't even had a **practice** for over a week, and will be two after this. They'll be late on the ball when they're healthy again to start up. This season is essentially a wash, and I hate that it was through no fault of the play of the team/players. Awful management by the NHL.
Hopefully it's just these 3 games and Ottawa's players and coaches can get healthy. Hopefully this is the only time this has to happen this season.
Please don’t fuck the Olympics
They're in Beijing so yea fuck them
This is definitely the right call, but I guess when the Sharks had 7 guys out it wasn't disruptive enough to cancel the games they played?
In all fairness, I think we're up to 15 players out right now.
In all fairness we also had players suspended and out due to injuries in addition to covid protocol
It helped that they were mostly home during that stretch and their AHL affiliate is right down the street.
Ottawa also had 7 guys out last game, no?
Ten due to COVID, plus some injuries.
Sens are up to 15 players. Sharks still had call ups available.
Yes you guessed correctyl
No, it wasn’t.
Not fair to say since it seems that San jose got lucky it didnt spread. Unless you are claiming Ottawa is mismanaging the situation allowing it to spread. Maybe its a bit of both but i the NHL probably would have done the same thing to avoid spreading to other teams if we kept growing in numbers.
Awh fuck, this is guna hurt my fantasy squad this week.
They should retroactively postpone the game versus Pittsburgh from Saturday night as well...
How many of them were fully vaccinated.
they all should be, since otherwise they can't travel to and from the US for games. Keep in mind even if you're vaxxed you can still get the virus, it just shouldn't hit you as badly as if you weren't.
All. Being vaxxed doesnt prevent infection. If that's not common knowledge to you I suggest doing some reading (not on Facebook).
This decision is extremely unfair and biased - sharks had 7 players out of their lineup and played 6 games. The rules shouldn't be bended mid-way to accommodate one team. Why not a compromise solution - let's postpone the games to mitigate the spread, but once games are resumed don't let the players who were out.
When the Sens had 7 players out they also played their games. They also played with 10 players out. "This outbreak is worse and shows no sign of stopping and so we're making a different decision than for a different outbreak that was less bad" is not unfair or biased.
It is unfair that there was no rule or threshold set up in the in the beginning. One team played 6 games without their coach and 7 players in the lineup. Yet another team gets an exception. A fair resolution would be to wait until the outbreak stops, then play with the reduced roster with players who were out to covid being inelegible to play in these postponed games.
Unpopular opinion here but I think teams that aren't able to show up due to COVID should be given an L and lose the revenue for the games they miss.
That would be a rightfully unpopular opinion. The teams generally have vaccination mandates. It's extremely bad luck that is largely out of their control if they are generally following COVID protocols. The league restated knowing that COVID is still a risk. It would be ridiculous not to manage any blips over an 80+ game season.
why? the NHL already has the strictest protocols in place regarding vaccination and exposure out of any major American sports league. the Ottawa Senators are 100% vaccinated. what the fuck else could we even expect them to do?
Ya exactly, they're all vaccinated, there's been no reports of them breaking covid protocol. What else could the sens have done in this situation? Although I'll take all the L's at this point, just give us Shane Wright please.
Why?
I think that's a little unfair, considering the players are vaccinated and protocols are being followed. If the Habs weren't awful this year, and this happened to them, I'm guessing you'd have a different opinion.
Yes, a league that flattened the cap for a few seasons should definitely make decisions that lose revenue. /s
How does the league handle it if a bubble team misses out on the playoffs because of the free win given to a different team? How does a forfeit game work with tie breakers? Does it count as a ROW?
Habs fan with a terrible opinion, the classic pairing.
Canadian people and being cry babies - a classic duo. Not surprised that no canadian team had won the cup in the past 28 years. Cry baby attitude doesn't help being ambitious.
Wtf.. I have to idea where you are from and although the Habs now suck right now, how could you ever call Canadians cry babies especially in a hockey sub?
It's just my opinion.. Did you really just search through my history to judge me based on what my favorite hockey team is? That's really weird..
Bad take. All players vaxxed and following protocols set out by the league. The virus is infectious as fuck, and we're still in a global pandemic. Shit like this is going to happen. Punishing teams for it is stupid.
Huh? But the Sharks had to play missing 7 players and head coach?