Regardless of the standings and how the team is doing overall, there is something special about a Saturday night matchup between your Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins.
This Saturday however, bust out the board games or get your Netflix game on because the game has been postponed.
Saturday’s game between the Canadiens and the Bruins has been postponed.https://t.co/mxWuMLoHSO
— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) December 17, 2021
The team has announced that they will resume play on Monday against the Islanders, making it clear that the prevention is against the Bruins since they are up to 7 players who are under the COVID protocol.
If the game isn’t rescheduled before the end of the year, Thursday’s fan-less game against Philadelphia would mark the final home game for the Canadiens in 2021. The team will be in the New York region for the final three games of the calendar year as they face the Islanders Monday, the Rangers Wednesday and the New Jersey
Jerseys
Devils Thursday.
Jonathan Drouin voiced his uneasiness as to facing the Bruins on Saturday.
Jonathan Drouin said he was more or less comfortable with facing the Bruins on Saturday with so many COVID cases on the team. Said if it’s 6 or 7 now, could easily be far more than that by Saturday.
— Arpon Basu (@ArponBasu) December 17, 2021
He’s not wrong though. With COVID cases spiking across the continent at an alarming rate, having so many players unavailable to play puts other players’ health at risk and also takes away from the quality of the show put on the ice.
No one will criticize Drouin for speaking up on this matter. Now if he can just shoot the puck more, we might eventually get off his case altogether.
Montreal’s Jonathan Drouin with the shootout game-winner tonight. What a shot! https://t.co/9pJv8DCbEO pic.twitter.com/vCjGGG89Jh
— Allan Walsh🏒 (@walsha) December 17, 2021