Robin Lehner blows out NHL about ‘blatant lie’ about players using the COVID vaccine

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Robin Lehner stepped on the microphone today during the media availability of the Golden Knights player on Zoom. He answered a few questions and then, without being asked, decided to deliver a message about how the NHL treats COVID protocols after players who receive the vaccine.

I want to discuss a few things here without stepping on anyone’s toes or what not. I feel I have a responsibility to say something here for myself and for other people in the competition.

When I got back from my concussion we were approached to take the vaccine and as it turned out we were shown that the vaccines are available if X number of players around this team take the vaccine that there will be a new set of rules. to come outside. We got to see the NBA protocols, the NBA protocols promised, to get some kind of normalcy back.

COVID is dangerous, it’s been crazy for everyone, but we were approached and promised that things would change for our competition if we got vaccinated. So after our second vaccination, 10 days later, we would start enjoying life again. People don’t really know, we’ve been in total isolation, we can’t leave our house, we can’t leave our hotel and it’s been over a year now and nobody ever talks about the mental health aspect of that stuff.

To promise that something will change when you take a vaccine and some players were even about to take it, I was one of them, I wasn’t sure but I took it for my sanity. Now we have done it and they are changing, now they say it is not happening. I don’t think that’s right.

Then yesterday I had a few phone calls with the league and with the NHLPA and that’s why I wanted to talk today. It pisses me off and I don’t care what someone is going to do to me in the competition or not, I don’t know. They told me yesterday that they are examining all teams to see who took the vaccine and who didn’t and they won’t change the rules for us as players until all teams have had the vaccines at the same time, so that’s not the case. a competitive advantage. That drove me crazy to be honest. That shows me that I have now taken the vaccine and it has been hugely difficult for me due to this COVID issue with my mental health status and they are talking about competitive advantage instead of human lives. We are human too.

I have to give credit where the credit deserves, the NHL has done some really good things too. I like this competition, I don’t want to destroy anything, I want this competition to do well.

It made me very disappointed and emotional last night and it was a lie in our face, do this and you will get this and now it is not happening because of competitive advantage. Where was the competitive edge for the Vancouver Canucks when they wanted three, three and a half weeks and they got one practice and play one of the best teams in the league in Toronto? Competitive advantage when Washington took away three of their best players and they were still playing? We lost a player and they quarantined us for a week, where was the competitive edge?

There is a twofold problem for me here. The first is that we are promised to take something that not necessarily everyone wanted, so that was a lie, a blatant lie. Second, to give a competitive advantage over human lives.

This is about the competition as a whole, this is about liability. This is about how they will not be charged when it should be about a person’s health. If the government, corporations, NHL, whoever makes decisions in terms of irrelevant things like competitive advantage over humans, that’s not okay.

We have been vaccinated and will we still be in prison? Being lied to about things that change and force us to take the vaccine. Unacceptable. And now that we’ve taken the vaccine to have the excuse to say ‘no, we’re not changing for competitive advantage’ is outrageous. -Robin Lehner

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