Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill opened training camp by making a few announcements. The biggest question, of course, being the vaccination status of the team. As teams have opened training camps across the league the last few days, each general manager has addressed where their team stands. For Dallas, the status was fully vaccinated among NHL players and all staff, and only one unvaccinated individual in the organization as of now: Joel L’Esperance.
“My wife and I just thought that, where we are as a family right now, we weren’t quite comfortable with getting the vaccine at this point,” Joel L’Esperance said.