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Yes. County health department said the same thing. The chart backs this up. Unfortunately jails and nursing homes are getting hit badly again. They said 80 of the cases announced today we're nursing homes. 30 were just backlog cases from a while back that somehow never got announced.

Yes it's in the chart.

https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/allegheny-county-data-shows-parties-becoming-a-growing-source-of-coronavirus/ Sports specifically listed.

I have a lot of suggestions as to where the most likely infection spot was. Some of them aren't family friendly.

Was this your first post? I'm starting to think we need to crack down on alts

The MLB outbreak is rumored to have been players going out and partying together per an espn report.

https://tribhssn.triblive.com/piaa-approves-detailed-covid-19-guidelines-for-fall-sports/

Honestly if kids would catch it taking a faceoff we would all have caught it by now. Locker room? Maybe. Faceoffs? Nope.

https://amp.yorkdispatch.com/amp/5525085002

I dunno it's weird. Lacrosse definitely never seems to be that way, parents are 99.9% happy and cheer for the team. Even individualized sports like wrestling and youth boxing ive seen more collegial environments. Baseball can vary but I'd say across the board nothing I've experienced comes close to the parent idiocy in hockey.

Unfortunately, and it isn't always the case, often hockey parents even on the same teams breed jealousy of each other and instead of cheering for a team default to cheering for their own kid, worried about them losing a spot on the team the next year or not looking as good as the best kid on the team. This often comes from parents with little knowledge of the sport or who learned about it from mite hockey and think scoring 200 goals is the way to be the best player on the ice. Hell with defense or passing or over carrying the puck. Also doesn't matter if you lose as long as your kid scored the hat trick. Add to that environment another team who likely has a chip on their shoulder and you get a powder keg. It gets ugly - grown men yelling about and at children, fist fights in the stands, drunken idiots. Yeah - I won't miss much about being at the rink if I can't go.

I for one am looking forward to having an excuse for watching games on livebarn rather than standing around obnoxious individuals. If I had mite or squirt age kids I'd be even happier.

Agreed. Stick to local hockey this year and followup with the ACHA teams regularly.

My God Danner and I agree again. Here is a food link for you the comments are important.

Not to mention all the people out there who think it's their job to police and report "violators". They probably overwhelm the health department with minor complaints and major violators never get caught.

Hockey is happening right now as pointed out by several people. Unless someone other than Danner does the contact tracing to hockey the health department isn't going to shut it down. If organizations choose to do it for their own liability purposes other avenues of playing hockey will open up.

Yep agree with you completely on this. Also those rules have been updated a bit since I last looked thanks for sharing! Also brings up a good point - how much are these actually communicated? I know restaurants have heard very little from the health department directly. They rely on the news.

I think this may be true, but sports are also a bit of a gray area. I think you (and they) are assuming hockey practices are "gatherings" and limiting them to less than 25. I think the other rinks can also argue it is more like a restaurant situation (or even other sports) and indoor capacity should be limited to 25% of the fire marshall capacity. Bethel Park school district proactively banned all fans for indoor sports the entire year. I'm hoping at some point the state health department clarifies and allows indoor events to be modified in all cases to 25% capacity. I think that's an obvious solution in a large building.

The organizations that use the rink don't have any decision on the fan side, it's a YMCA decision so it isn't to hide the practices. Im sure coaches didn't mind not having a bunch of parents watching tryouts and complaining later though.

Since summer leagues are moving forward and we have not heard any evidence from the local health department that youth sports (including hockey) are driving the spread I believe we will have hockey in some form this season.

Didn't they win the pens rink upgrade competition? I was curious what they were going to do to remodel.

Ok that's what I thought. Thanks!

They have u16 and U18 also correct?

I heard there was a lot of bleedover too. Are there now vengeance teams at all age levels?

He had to say something once his mission to shut down ice castle didn't work..........