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The NHL Is Doing What They Can Regarding The Mumps Outbreak

12/15/2014 at 7:59am EST

from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

Kings head coach Darryl Sutter said Sunday that his players were all vaccinated about "2-3 weeks ago."...

"I don't even think about it, to be honest," superstar Kings blue-liner Drew Doughty said after Sunday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Maple Leafs. "I'm not too worried about it. If I get it, I get it. I hope I don't. I hope no one on our team does, but there's really nothing we can do. We have sanitizers all over the rink and all over the plan and stuff like that. We’re trying not to get it, obviously."

While the Kings were given the shot, the Maple Leafs say they gave their players the option of getting the vaccine shot, although it appears most players did it.

"Well, I just got my shot today," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said Sunday. "They dragged me in, I was the last one. I thought that I had [been vaccinated] 58 years ago, so I didn't think I'd need another one, but I guess there's a new strain out that they better look after us."

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have been closely monitoring the situation.

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added 8:15am, from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Mumps again was the word.

The virus that has appears to have the makings of an NHL epidemic struck the Rangers for the second time, this time with Derick Brassard the victim.

“Brass woke up this morning with the mumps, so we’re sending him home right now,” Blueshirts coach Alain Vigneault said before Sunday’s 2-0 victory against the Oilers. “Everyone has been tested, all the guys have had their shots, our doctors and I’m sure every team in the NHL are doing what they’re supposed to do.

“Some guys are more prone to it. It’s nature. It’s a virus. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

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