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VGK Goalie Robin Lehner Takes To Twitter To Clarify COVID-19, NHL, Mental Health Comments To Media Wednesday

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz,com

Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner, known for his transparent comments and honest demeanor, took the National Hockey League to task for promising more COVID-19 protocol freedoms if players were vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, but not following through on their promises.

Lehner spoke to the media Wednesday morning, unleashing a torrent of comments about the NHL and the mental health impacts of not loosening COVID-19 restrictions that the goaltender said was promised by the league.

He walked back on the term, “prison,” in his media comments in a series of Tweets posted at 11:50 AM today. Here are Lehner’s comments in those tweets that he posted because “everything didn’t come out of today’s press in the right way.”

 

 

VGK fans who read Lehner’s comments supported the Golden Knights netminder, who is starting every other game with Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Here are a sample of the fan reactions:

Here’s the VGK media session this morning from a Jesse Merrick tweet:

The Golden Knights play the San Jose Sharks tonight 6:30 PM at T-Mobile Arena.

Here are the latest Nevada COVID-19 numbers for Wednesday:


Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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