(Ottawa) The National Hockey League has postponed the next three Ottawa Senators games due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
The league made the announcement on Monday afternoon, specifying in a statement that Senators games will be postponed until at least Saturday.
The Senators were supposed to travel to New Jersey to face the Devils on Tuesday before hosting the Nashville Predators on Thursday and the New York Rangers on Saturday.
The Senators have 10 players who have been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days.
The team canceled training on Monday to try to contain the contagion.
Forward Drake Batherson is the most recent Senators player to go through NHL protocol for COVID-19 as his name was added to the roster on Sunday.
Batherson has been added to a roster that includes Austin Watson, Nick Holden, Josh Brown, Connor Brown, Dylan Gambrell, Matt Murray, Victor Mete, Alex Formenton and Nikita Zaitsev, as well as associate coach Jack Capuano.
This is the second season in a row that a Canadian team has been hit by a major COVID-19 outbreak. The Vancouver Canucks’ season was severely disrupted last spring.
Canucks forward Adam Gaudette was sidelined on March 30 after testing positive for COVID-19, the first of 22 players and four staff who contracted the virus, including Head Coach Travis Green.
The Canucks eventually postponed nine games over a 19-day period. When they resumed their activities, they lost seven of their last 10 games of the season, finishing last in the Canadian section.