Anaheim Ducks Scratch Clayton Stoner For Possibly Being Diseased

The Anaheim Ducks have scratched another player for mumps-like symptoms Sunday night

The Anaheim Ducks, it seems, haven’t been able to fully shake the November blues.

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Prior to their puck drop against the Arizona Coyotes Sunday night, the team’s Official Twitter account announced that the team had scratched defenseman Clayton Stoner, who was displaying the mumps-like symptoms seen by the slew of NHLers diagnosed with the virus earlier this month.

The team has made sure to reiterate: Stoner has not been diagnosed yet, and he is simply being scratched as a precautionary measure. He will most likely be given a blood test tomorrow to determine if he’s caught a lingering strain of the virus, and the team will move forward from there.

This is the second game the Coyotes have played at Honda Center this season, and the Ducks have had a mumps-depleted roster in both. Winger Corey Perry was still out with the then-confirmed first case of mumps seen by the team during the first matchup; now, after Perry and fellow mumps-sufferer Francois Beauchemin have returned, Stoner is taking his turn in the sickbed.

The Ducks were one of a number of teams diagnosed with the mumps early on in the season; in addition to Perry and Beauchemin, the team had to scratch captain Ryan Getzlaf for a game early in November for similar symptoms, and the Minnesota Wild had as many as four players simultaneously out for illness.

The outbreak of what was normally considered a rare virus in developed nations has prompted discussions around the league of how teams might better prepare themselves to combat the spread of highly contagious illnesses; the common practice of ‘toughing it out’ when players simply feel under the weather is thought to have potentially contributed to the disease being passed between franchises altogether.

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