Edmonton Oilers place Kyle Turris in COVID protocol

The COVID hits just keep coming for the Edmonton Oilers as the team announced this morning that Kyle Turris is the latest to be added to the list of players to be sidelined after a couple of days of no positive results. While we don’t yet know what the Turris positive test means for the rest of his teammates, there is a certain sense of “here we go again” any time one of our guys becomes unavailable. Good times, amirite?

For the Oilers, the list of guys that haven’t been added to COVID protocol yet continues to shrink. As of this writing, the remaining players unaffected so far this season are Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman, Colton Sceviour, Kris Russell, Mike Smith, Mikko Koskinen, and AHL call-ups in Markus Niemalainen, Philip Broberg, Dmitry Samorukov, and Stuart Skinner.

Currently, the Oilers’ next game is set to happen on Saturday night against the Ottawa Senators after the game was pushed back a week due to COVID delays. Will it actually happen? That’s the million dollar question, I suppose. The Oilers have already had five games postponed this month and while no further announcements have been made just yet, you have to wonder how many more are coming.