Virus positives play role in first round of NHL playoffs
Jake Walman testing positive for the coronavirus late in the season caught the St. Louis Blues off guard. Everyone was a little bit shocked because he was vaccinated,” Blues leading scorer David Perron said. Walman was retested and sent into quarantine with COVID-19, teammate Nathan Walker also tested positive and then Perron joined them on the NHL's protocol list — missing all four games of a first-round sweep by Colorado.