With a run of bad form and now COVID to deal with, D.J. Smith is hoping that this adversity can rally the team. ✍️: HockeyScanner
are dealing with COVID-19 cases in the dressing room, to go with recent losses in the standings.
“We’re certainly shorthanded, but it’s a chance for our group to come together and there’s no excuses in pro sports -- things have to carry on.” After losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-3 on Saturday for their fourth straight loss, and then having COVID cases pile up after an earlier non-COVID virus was going around the dressing room, Smith admitted the team’s morale has taken a hit.
Once they get healthy -- perhaps even while they are shorthanded -- Ottawa is going to need some positive game results as they get past the positive COVID tests. As Smith likes to say, there are still 70-plus games to go, but there is urgency now for Ottawa to put together some wins and stop the bleeding before the goal of remaining within shouting distance of a playoff spot is gone and Ottawa eyes a lottery pick yet again. That would be disheartening after management declared this fall that the “rebuild is over.”
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