Last man standing, addendum

It has been four days since I made my most recent post on the NHL infection rate. At the time, I noted there were 115 players out of a league of approximately 800 players that had been infected in the first three months of the season.

Last man standing, part 2

Well.

Since then, teams have been cancelling games left and right, the NHL is increasing COVID measures, and arena capacity is being limited¹. Why? 63 more fully vaccinated players have been infected in the last four days. Dozens of more fully vaccinated staff and coaches have been infected as well.

Here are the additions to the list, which bring the total players infected this year alone to 178:

• Aaron Ekblad

• Alex Galchenyuk

• Alex Nedeljkovic

• Alexander Kerfoot

• Andre Burakovsky

• Anton Blidh

• Ben Harpur

• Brad Hunt

• Brandon Montour

• Brandon Sutter

• Byron Froese

• Cale Makar

• Calvin Petersen

• Carter Rowney

• Carter Verhaeghe

• Darcy Kuemper

• Devin Shore

• Dillon Dube

• Drew Doughty

• Duncan Keith

• Dustin Tokarski

• Evgeny Kuznetsov

• Frank Vatrano

• Givani Smith

• J.T. Compher

• Jacob Markstrom

• Jason Spezza

• Jay Beagle

• Jeremy Swayman

• Jesper Boqvist

• John Tavares

• Johnny Gaudreau

• Lawson Crouse

• Mark Borowiecki

• Matt Luff

• Maxwell Willman

• Michael McCarron

• Michael Rasmussen

• Mikael Backlund

• Mikael Granlund

• Mitchell Marner

• Morgan Frost

• Nick Cousins

• Nicklas Backstrom

• Noah Hanifin

• Oliver Kylington

• Oskar Steen

• Oskar Sundqvist

• P.K. Subban

• Patrice Bergeron

• Philip Tomasino

• Radko Gudas

• Rasmus Andersson

• Robby Fabbri

• Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

• Sam Bennett

• Trent Frederic

• Trevor Lewis

• Tucker Poolman

• Tyler Motte

• Tyler Myers

• Tyler Pitlick

• Wayne Simmonds

Yikes! It may be prudent to start looking at re-infections in the NHL — that would be an interesting indicator of how this pandemic will go. In any case, who can say this vaccine is effective?

1. It should be noted that there were large breakouts last season without any fans as well… post-vaccination, by the way.