Breaking: Pastrnak officially placed into quarantine by the Bruins

Safe to say that the Bruins' MVP candidate won't be joining his team for awhile

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Breaking: Pastrnak officially placed into quarantine by the Bruins
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This just in, Boston Bruins superstar David Pastrnak's agent J.P. Barry has officially been put into quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Pastrnak has tested negative, according to Barry.

Boston Bruins insider Fluto Shinzawa broke the news for The Athletic. 

Check it out:



From Shinzawa's column:

On Wednesday, Pastrnak was cleared to skate alongside 10 of his teammates for the first time since returning to Boston. The Bruins expected Pastrnak to practice with the team on Thursday. Plans changed that morning after the team learned of Pastrnak’s contact. The right wing did not practice on Thursday or Friday.
The length of Pastrnak’s quarantine and absence from the team is unknown. The Bruins leave for Toronto on July 26.

Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy admitted that there's no timetable for Pastrnak's return, as well as fellow Bruins teammate Ondrej Kase whose absence from training camp has not been explained. “Am I thinking ahead to being without those guys in the round robin or playoffs? No. That’d be speculating,” Cassidy said on Thursday of Pastrnak and Kase. “But yeah, for today. And if I get word later today that the same thing’s going to happen tomorrow, then we start thinking, ‘OK, we’ve looked at a couple guys. Anything else?’ We’ll meet as a staff to go through that. But there’s only so many guys that will go up to David’s spot.”

At this point it's unknown how Pastrnak, or Kase for that matter, will practice and train as he is NOT allowed to use his team's facilities at this point.

“If the league allows them to work out on their own, I’m OK with them trying to get their conditioning up to where it needs to be,” Cassidy said. “What are the parameters of it? Are they near people that are at risk? Are they social distancing? Are they doing it the right way? That’s the term I’m going to use: Doing it the right way to prepare yourself. Then I’m OK with it. If they’re not and they put themselves in harm’s way, then obviously that’s not a good thing. I don’t want to judge Pasta or Kase without knowing all the facts of what happened before they got here. I know they traveled from Europe. Like a lot of guys, they had to quarantine or separate from the team or have X amount of negative tests. If it’s just about having negative tests and they’re allowed to go about their business, then they’re allowed to go about their business. If they weren’t supposed to, then they shouldn’t have been doing it.”

Again, for the full reporting on this story be sure to check out Shinzawa's column for The Athletic.