NHL COVID-19 list grows significantly in the past 24 hours

The NHL announced yesterday the shutdown of the Calgary Flames after 7 positive COVID tests. Since that time there has been a slew of new players added to the COVID protocol list.

The Carolina Hurricanes added Seth Jarvis, Marc Staal and Sebastian Aho.

The Canucks added Luke Schenn.

Also added today were:

#NHL COVID list just today...

- Mat Barzal (Islanders)
- Devon Toews (Avalanche)
- Craig Smith (Bruins)
- Ryan Lomberg (Panthers)
- Sean Monahan (Flames)
- Milan Lucic (Flames)
- Noah Hanifin (#Flames)

And most recently Brad Marchand

It will be interesting to see how this is handled by the NHL going forward.

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