Auston Matthews' acknowledgement of testing positive for COVID-19 set him apart from his NHL peers, at least 50 of whom have registered a positive test in anonymity since mid-March. Here's why he did it. (via reporterchris)
star is the first and only NHL player to publicly discuss a positive test. It was done matter-of-factly after the opening session of the team’s summer training camp, with Matthews saying, “Yeah, I did” when asked Monday about a report that he contracted the novel coronavirus while at home in Arizona waiting out the paused season.
“Obviously I wasn’t able to leave or skate or anything, so I think that was kind of really the only thing that kind of took a hit for me,” he said. “I was skating beforehand. Having to take two and a half or three weeks off the ice, that obviously kind of catches up to you.”Matthews missed anywhere from 10 to 12 planned on-ice sessions, but still got back to Toronto in time to join teammates for a week’s worth of small-group workouts before camp opened.
It did arrive, however, at the moment the number of cases in that state started to skyrocket without warning.
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