NHL Postpones This Week’s Capitals-Sabres Games Due To Covid Protocol

Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty ImagesThe NHL announced this afternoon that seven more NHL games have been postponed due to teams in COVID-related shutdowns. This included the two Capitals-Sabres games scheduled for Thursday and Saturday of this week. Buffalo currently has nine players on the NHL’s COVID protocol list, and head coach Ralph Krueger has also tested positive for coronavirus.

The official statement from the league reads:

NEW YORK (Feb. 8, 2021) – The National Hockey League announced today that two additional Buffalo Sabres games (Feb. 11 and Feb. 13 vs. Washington); three more New Jersey Devils contests (Feb. 11 and Feb. 13 vs. Philadelphia and Feb. 15 vs. Boston) and two…