The Canadiens are going ahead with a U.S road trip even though a bunch of their guys are already out with “Covid protocol” and they’re bringing along a taxi squad of substitutes. Well, it can’t get much worse, can it?
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Kate
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Kate
8,231 new cases of Covid turned up over the last 24 hours in Quebec, as Canada marked two million cases since the start of the pandemic. Emergency wards are still bracing for a rush as hospitalizations rose by 38% since official counts went silent for the Christmas break.
There’s also some gloomy déjà vu with the news of a CHSLD outbreak in St‑Hubert.
Update: Radio-Canada says Tuesday’s count will be 12,830.
Update again: there will be a presser at 1 pm Tuesday.
Kevin
From what I’ve seen we are looking at 75-85 hospitalizations per day since last Friday, and about 240 admissions on Monday
So we are bang on to the curves predicted by health authorities in early December assuming nothing was done.
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Kate
The young man killed while working on the Old Port Ferris wheel on Christmas has been identified. He was Riley Jonathan Valcin, a student at the École polytechnique, and he was simply removing snow when the incident occurred.
Max
Now I *really* don’t like that stupid wheel.
Here’s the gofundme if anyone feels like supporting the kid’s family:
Daniel
Thanks for sharing that, Max.
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Kate
La Presse has a year-end interview with Valérie Plante and her hopes as we go into 2022.
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Kate
Montreal-born director Jean-Marc Vallée died suddenly Sunday in a chalet near Quebec City. He was 58.
DeWolf 22:01 on 2021-12-27 Permalink
I find it very strange with news items declare that such-and-such player is now “in the Covid protocol.” It’s some kind of weird Orwellian rhetoric unique to professional sports.
Uatu 11:52 on 2021-12-28 Permalink
At this point you might as well just broadcast a match between two teenagers playing NHL 22 on an Xbox
dhomas 13:07 on 2021-12-28 Permalink
EA already runs simulations of CPU vs CPU seasons and predicts the Stanley Cup winners:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EASPORTSNHL/status/1449404895958913029
Last year’s details:
https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-21/news/season-sim
Might as well take actual humans right out of the equation (even the teenage players)!
Bert 19:11 on 2021-12-28 Permalink
There were, and still are, some e-sport racing / motor sport series that ran through 2020 / 2021. Many of them were broadcast through the same established on-line sources as their real world counterparts were or would have been.