COVID-19 vaccines for their players, the biggest shock wasn’t that a professional sports league would even consider such brazen queue-jumping.In the case of the NHL, the bigger shock was the possibility that professional hockey might try pulling such a stunt again.
Flash back to 2009, when the H1N1 flu strain was spreading around the world.While vulnerable seniors waited to get an H1N1 flu shot, news broke that the Calgary Flames had somehow secured their own private vaccination clinic for team players and staff.Red-faced Alberta health officials admitted 150 Calgary Flames hockey players, family members and staff received the scarce vaccine, while requests for H1N1 flu-shot clinics at nursing homes had been turned down.