Flyers have no additions to COVID list

The list of Flyers unavailable due to COVID protocol flattened out Saturday, a relief compared to the additions the previous two days.

Seven Flyers remain on the COVID list that began with Monday with only Travis Sanheim. Claude Giroux and Justin Braun were added Tuesday, Morgan Frost and Jake Voracek Thursday, Scott Laughton and Oscar Lindblom Friday.

The league’s COVID list denotes only those unavailable to play on a specific night, in this case Saturday. It doesn’t differentiate between players infected with the virus and those with protocol-related absences.

Players who test positive must quarantine and test negative on consecutive days to be cleared to return after a doctor’s examination.

Thirty-five NHL games have been postponed, four of them in

volving the Flyers, including their scheduled date Sunday with the New York

Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

The Flyers’ headquarters at the Skate Zone in Voorhees, N.J., is closed except for daily testing. It’s not certain if the team will resume

practice Monday, as scheduled. The Flyers’ last played the previous Sunday at Washington.

The Flyers are still slated to play the Boston Bruins next Sunday in the NHL

Outdoors doubleheader at Lake Tahoe, Nev. The Colorado Avalanche oppose the Vegas Golden Knights Saturday.

If the Flyers don’t get well, the backup plan is

pitting the Rangers against the Bruins at Lake Tahoe.

How the Flyers were stricken with the virus never will be known for certain, although conspiracy theorists suspect it came from the New Jersey Devils, who have a league-leading 13 players on the COVID list, down from 19 earlier in the week. The Devils had had six games postponed due to the virus.