The Pacific Junior Hockey League has postponed a pair of Delta Ice Hawks home games this week as a precautionary measure as the team deals with a COVID-19 outbreak.
Two players and the team trainer have tested positive, while general manager and head coach Steve Robinson is recovering from the virus. Delta was scheduled to host Mission on Monday and Chilliwack on Tuesday at the Ladner Leisure Centre.
“I just cleared my seventh day for testing positive,” said Robinson on Monday afternoon. “We had enough healthy bodies to play tonight but it feels like we will have more cases after our trainer tested positive yesterday and was in close contact with a lot of our players.
“It was a league decision based upon cases within our team and the potential increase risks that were avoidable.”
Robinson and his entire family dealt with “severe cold/flu” like symptoms for a number of days at their Tsawwassen home with the worse fortunately behind them with Christmas around the corner.
“We’re all fine now. Just the whole thing is tiring and we’re just all so sick of it,” he added.
The Mission game was a make-up date for an earlier postponement related to travel issues caused by the Atmospheric River storm back in late November. There is no word yet on when the league will re-schedule the games.
The Hawks are not scheduled to see action again until Jan. 1 in Richmond as part of the PJHL Winter Classic. They currently sit in the Tom Shaw Conference with a 19-7-1-1 record. They will be hosting the Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial junior “B” championships in April.
