Preview: Maple Leafs play two against a recovering Canucks team
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Maple Leafs @ Vancouver Canucks
Tuesday, April 20, 9:00 p.m. on Sportsnet
The Canucks play their first game back from a layoff after nearly the entire team, the Taxi Squad and the coaching staff were infected with a variant form of COVID-19.
As of Saturday, all but two Canucks players are off the NHL COVID Protocol list. The Canucks’ AHL affiliate is in Utica, New York, so unlike most of the rest of the NHL teams in Canada, they can’t recall players at will. They recalled Kole Lind on April 2, and Jack Rathbone on Friday. Rathbone won’t be available yet, and it’s not known at this time how many players are actually medically fit to play. Conditioning is going to be an issue for all of them, of course, even those who never were sick.
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