from Wayne Scanlan of Sportsnet,
The Ottawa Senators are prisoners in their own town.
They can’t practice, let alone go out. It’s rink/home. If they even live at home. Many don't right now, to protect their families.
While the rest of the NHL more or less eases into post-pandemic life, the Senators have turned back the clock. The lockdown bubble is back. A young, growing Ottawa team is trying to perform that impossible gymnastic exercise of drawing closer together while remaining physically apart. They are masked and weary.
Their dressing room has been cut in half, spaces between stalls doubled to allow distancing and players moved out to other rooms to reduce numbers.
Tested multiple times daily, players are showing positive COVID-19 tests and then not -- such that over the past several days, forward Drake Batherson and defenceman Nikita Zaitsev were both placed on the COVID-19 protocols list, then removed, only to be put back on again.
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