The Montreal Canadiens have added two more players to the National Hockey League’s COVID-19 protocol hours ahead of their game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
Defencemen Louie Belpedio and Gianni Fairbrother are the two players. Belpedio was the team’s seventh defenceman. Fairbrother was on the team’s taxi squad.
This makes it 13 players on COVID-19 protocol, including injured players Tyler Toffoli, Joel Edmundson, and Paul Byron. Byron and Cayden Primeau were added to the list on Wednesday. Artturi Lehkonen will be the first person off of COVID-19 protocol but will need to skate before returning to game action, and will not re-join the team until they get back to Montreal.