Todd Reirden's Concerns Outside of Hockey
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4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Capitals Head Coach Todd Reirden held a conference call with the media and a large part of the conversation about his teenage son, who has a immunodeficiency disorder and his current concerns during this time. Plus, Reirden talks about what the Caps & the rest of NHL will have to work through upon their return to the ice, whenever that might be. Finally (33:26), Rob, J.J., Brian, and Ben Raby also note an important Capitals anniversary today you might not know about.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we got a chance to talk with Todd Reardon, and the interesting thing about Todd Reardon's |
| 0:09.6 | experience with this coronavirus is it's much more personal and much more scary for the Reardon family |
| 0:17.2 | because of the situation with their son, Travis, and J.J. Regan, you were the one that asked |
| 0:22.5 | the question about how this is affecting them. And I sensed, JJ, I don't know about you, but I |
| 0:28.9 | sensed you could hear pain and fear in his voice as he was talking about this, because this is |
| 0:35.8 | obviously something they've been dealing with |
| 0:38.0 | for his son's entire life right so todd's son Travis was born with common variable |
| 0:44.3 | immunodeficiency so you know when we talk about the coronavirus and how to affect people |
| 0:50.5 | the people who it affects the most are elderly and people with compromised immune |
| 0:54.3 | system. So Travis, despite being 17 years old and should be, you know, as healthy as anyone |
| 1:00.4 | right now, he is at the top of this list of people who need to watch out for the coronavirus. |
| 1:05.7 | So yeah, you can definitely tell there was some fear in his voice. And since this started, this has been the story. I've |
| 1:12.3 | wanted to talk to Todd Rear, and this has been the story that I've wanted to do to hear from |
| 1:16.6 | his perspective, because while everyone is talking about how, well, I'm not going to get it. It |
| 1:21.7 | doesn't matter to me. I'm asymptomatic. You know, this is the face of why this matters because, okay, even if you don't get it, |
| 1:29.3 | you could spread it to people like Travis. And so Ty Reardon talked a lot about the sacrifices they've |
| 1:35.0 | had to make and the precautions they've had to take and about how Travis can't even get his |
| 1:39.0 | normal treatments right now because they have to choose whether or not they decided not to allow |
| 1:43.9 | the nurse who does the treatment to come into their house right now because it have to choose whether or not they decided not to allow the nurse who does |
| 1:44.7 | the treatment to come into their house right now because it's that much of a risk. So very |
| 1:49.7 | interesting comments from Todd Riordan. Yeah, and we'll hear each of his answers about this |
| 1:53.8 | situation. And again, you could tell that this weighs heavily on them. Brian McNally, I think |
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