“What happened to my grandfather is relevant now in a way I never thought it would be,” he said. “The flu that hit the Stanley Cup came at the end of a series of pandemic waves. People relaxed, and then, unfortunately, it came again.” https://twitter.com/NYTSports/status/1265274246927958018

"Over two years, the Spanish flu killed at least 50 million people, including 55,000 in Canada and 675,000 in the United States.

More than half of its victims died during the second wave, which lasted three months late in 1918."

"Officials called the series a draw. And Joe Hall? His teammates recovered, but he remained hospitalized. Fluid filled his lungs, and his fever stayed high. His wife raced by train from Canada to be at his side, but she was too late. A week after his last game, he died."

to be completely clear, I am not afraid of Carey Price, but I am afraid of someone dying. You can tweet "2% death rate!" or whatever it is this week all you want, 20 players on 24 teams plus coaching staff plus arena staff plus camera crew plus plus plus plus

A single life lost due to a competition that is, at the end of the day, frivolous and non-essential, is too many. We will never find about the security guard who went home asymptomatic and infected his immunocompromised mother, only the players.

I miss watching hockey so much. I miss having that shared experience with y'all, and complaining about the top pairing, and everything that happens during a game. I don't miss it enough to want a coach, player, arena worker, or hotel worker (or their families) put at risk.