Brandon Saad remains on the NHL’s Covid-19 protocol list, despite being (presumably) fully vaccinated. Unfortunately with the delta variant’s propensity to tell the vaccines to buzz off, the NHL is going to have to deal with fully vaccinated players popping on and off of the list. The most the league can hope for is that the effects and symptoms of Covid-19 are mitigated by the vaccine for any players that test positive.
If one Blue has it, the bad thing is, other Blues run the risk of being exposed. Today, the Blues announced that Ryan O’Reilly will be missing his first game in St.