the team staff the the players um you know i'm hopeful and it seems like there is a fair amount of will to try to find a way to conduct it later in the year or into NUMBER_TOKEN and so maybe that'll be a way to find a silver lining to this but yeah it's uh it was pretty shocking news when it came down but but really when they looked at it with the disease experts and doctors there was just no way they were going to be able to control the spread of the the variant during the event and it was going to wreak havoc with it even more than it already had so i'm curious about the nature of these bubbles in red deer in edmonton were there really any like how did it work for the players out there that it got to this point they weren't as tight as what last year when it was a fully completely bubbled environment uh players basically couldn't mix with each other hardly at all you know away from the rank you know kind of like we saw in the the nhl bubble back in august and september NUMBER_TOKEN you know it was it was a little looser than that's my understanding but you have to remember too like when this was planned omicron wasn't a thing you know it wasn't a variant that they were dealing with and so you know i think that if if we're going to have the benefit of hindsight if we're going to try to pick through where a mistake was made you know not having that a little bit more secured would fall under that category but you know i i'm i tend to be a little bit more um open-minded about it or i could understand how that happened and you know as this went along they did tighten their protocols and everything they could but you know there still was some community um exposure for for the players and and you know no one's insinuating here that any of the players did anything wrong or anyone that caught the virus i don't think they were breaking any rules it was just they they couldn't keep the the environment as secure and covet free as possible and so you know maybe that's that's a takeaway but you know there's an expense to that that there needed to be some foresight and and at the time when this was being planned you know covet wasn't running nearly as rampant as it is today what have you gathered from uh some of the reactions from coaches players people close to the tournament uh with regards to the tournament being canceled well i mean everyone is disappointed right i mean that's to be expected um again because they put a lot of months into it and it started right you we talked about in our last episode you know connor badard just scored four goals NUMBER_TOKEN year old like there was buzz building um and so you know it's i think it's pretty jarring when it happens you know i've seen a couple of the european teams and people associated those teams be quite critical of of what went down you know the finnish coach uh i saw was you know write a translated article back in english but you know criticize the double-eyed chef for the way they ran the tournament he said the problem wasn't coveted essentially the problem was wasn't better organized um so yeah i think that's a
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