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Tanner Glass With Mumps; League Investigating Epidemic

By Catherine Silverman

Oct 27, 2014; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers left wing Tanner Glass (15) sends the puck during the first period against the Minnesota Wild at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 27, 2014; New York, NY, USA; New York Rangers left wing Tanner Glass (15) sends the puck during the first period against the Minnesota Wild at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Anthony Gruppuso-USA TODAY Sports /
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Tanner Glass, Clayton Stoner next two players diagnosed with mumps

So, we all kind of laughed about the Corey Perry mumps situation, mostly because who gets the mumps in 2014? 

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Then Francois Beauchemin was diagnosed, and we all called out Los Angeles Kings head coach Darryl Sutter for saying his players don’t sit out games for feeling ‘under the weather’. When four Minnesota Wild players and a few St. Louis Blues scares popped up, I actually wondered if the league was concerned about this.

Perry, Beauchemin, and the Wild crew all returned to the ice; many teams had assured fans the skaters were getting innoculation boosters, and we believed them.

Only, a full week after Perry returned to the ice, Ducks defenseman Clayton Stoner is the most recent mumps victim in the West… and New York Rangers forward Tanner Glass has been diagnosed as well, eliminating any relief we felt that the disease hadn’t spread into the Eastern Conference as well.

With these two new cases, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly has insisted the league is working to get to the bottom of this. In an email to Yahoo’s Puck Daddy recently, he claimed the league as a whole was taking action:

"“We have an Infectious Disease Subcommittee that works under the auspices of the Joint Health and Safety Committee,” NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told Puck Daddy via email 16 days ago. “We send out notices and precaution instructions on a regular basis.”"

As pointed out by Puck Daddy’s Josh Cooper, though, mumps symptoms don’t appear immediately following infection; the virus can take up to two weeks to manifest, suggesting that isolating Glass through the weekend may not be much help — for the Rangers OR other teams.

Mumps may be rare and weird, but at least it’s not deadly; it’s a huge, painful nuisance to the league, but at least it’s not ebola.

The virus runs the risk of causing infertility in males, though, and it’s not exactly pleasant for those suffering from it. If the league hasn’t been taking decisive action yet, now is probably the time to accelerate that time-table.

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