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Re: Oilers pitch bid with government to host games [message #762928 is a reply to message #762926 ]	Thu, 02 July 2020 14:33

Adam
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mightyreasoner wrote on Thu, 02 July 2020 12:28

Adam wrote on Thu, 02 July 2020 11:40

Rocksteady wrote on Thu, 02 July 2020 09:21

I was positive it was going to be Vegas and Toronto, and now we find out Edmonton is the ~~second~~ ~~third~~ ~~fourth~~ first choice to be a hub city.

It's clear the NHL didn't want to come to Edmonton for the mere reason that the Rockies aren't just off Whyte ave, or resort living isn't in Edmonton. I'm salted by the whole selection process.

On one hand, I'm thrilled for the hospitality industry because they needed some good news and hopefully it will be office and they get it and they get the money in droves.

If you don't want to read doom and gloom stop reading.. (many of you already have)

The other hand Edmontonians are at risk by allowing 300 people from all around the world to compete in a tournament to award a cup that may or may not get awarded. The players are at risk and how crappy if our McDavid got covid and it got so severe due to lung scarring or something else and he has to retire early.

The season should be shut down and cancelled until a viable vaccine is made, I cannot see this tournament completing. I just can't.

Then again, what do I know? Like everyone else, I'm dying to see the Oilers play and see live sports.

So here's the thing:

The players will be safer in the bubble than they will be out of it. They'll be getting food supplied to them, they won't have friends asking them to go out. They won't have the temptations of other events - they'll just have the bubble and hockey with a bunch of other people who've been isolated. If you're an NHL team and you're worried about keeping your star players from catching this - this is probably the best case scenario. You're keeping them out of the general population.

There's no way to take the risk to zero, but it's quite low - people are tested before they enter the bubble, and then they maintain very low contact with the outside world. Twitter seems to be confirming today that families aren't invited.

The risk to the city is relatively low too - 1000 people in a city of a million people, who've isolated before coming to Edmonton and who are being sequestered away with limited contact? There should be very low risk of a NHL-driven outbreak in the city.

For the NHL and the players, this means millions upon millions of dollars, so given the relatively low risks, the only way this doesn't move forward is if one of the bubbles fails and there's a serious outbreak amongst the players.

I doubt the bubble will be sealed completely though. One anonymous player was talking about how they wanted Edmonton because it allowed them to get outside the hotel and do things like golf, go for runs, etc.

And honestly... that's probably okay. Outdoor social distancing is fair game. As long as "going outside the bubble" is for runs and golf and not for bars and restaurants.

The Edmonton bid was designed to make things like that possible. Moving the bubble - as in golf course A gets shut down at specific times or possibly for the duration so that the NHLers can use it.

There's no way the NHL can allow bars and restaurants. Team gatherings, sure. But they can't expose their players to servers or other patrons. And they have to make sure that the players know the risk in leaving - and that even if they don't get sick, if they're caught, they can't play for a significant amount of time. They have to take it seriously.

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