(Montreal) Former Montreal Canadiens player Chris Nilan, who hosted a Monday-Friday sports show on an English-language Montreal radio station for a decade, has just been fired, he says, because he refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Posted at 6:21 a.m.
In a letter posted on social media late Thursday afternoon, the former host explains that at the end of last year, his employer, Bell Media, ordered him to be vaccinated.
He adds that after having consulted his doctor and that because of his medical condition, the nature of which he did not specify, he decided not to resort to vaccination. He reports that a request for a medical exemption was refused.
Chris Nilan continues by writing that last Tuesday, he received a letter from a Bell Media executive informing him that his hosting contract at TSN 690 station was ending immediately. He concludes his note by thanking his listeners and some collaborators for their friendship.
No comments were issued by the employer, but the program entitled Off The Cuff hosted by Chris Nilan has been removed from the TSN 690 lineup on the station’s website.
Chris Nilan, who turns 64 next Wednesday, played 688 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1992, including 523 with the Canadiens. He scored 225 points, including 110 goals, and spent 3,043 minutes in the penalty box.