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PollWatch: Tell us where COVID is and Theo belongs in the Hall

A look at some of the more interesting results from the MooseJawToday.com polls
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It should come as little surprise that the vast majority of those polled on MooseJawToday.com want to see Theoren Fleury in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

What folks think about the precise location of COVID-19 cases in the province might come as a surprise.

These issues were subjects of poll questions over the last week, and both had definitive answers.

With regards to the former Moose Jaw Warriors standout and his long quest to be bestowed with hockey’s highest honour, MooseJawToday.com asked ‘Does Theoren Fleury belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?’ on June 26.

Of the 180 votes cast, over 66 per cent – 119 total – answered ‘Of course!’

And for good reason

The Warriors and Legends Hall of Fame member had one of the most storied careers of any player in the NHL through the through the 90s and early 2000s. In addition to winning the 1988 World Junior championship, Fleury had his name carved onto the Stanley Cup in 1989 and would go on to also win the 1991 Canada Cup and gold in the 2002 Olympics.

His stats are off the charts: twice he put up 100-points plus in a season, four times hit 90 points, and finished his career with 455 goals and 1,088 points in 1,084 games. Those are numbers that are similar to or exceed players currently enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

An article on Sportsnet.ca from 2018 laid out Fleury’s case rather succinctly.

A total of 41 voters said ‘No. He was good, but I don’t think he was good enough’ and 20 replied ‘I don’t know’.

The most clear-cut of the week’s polls came on June 29 with the question ‘Does it matter that the provincial government does not provide the exact location of COVID-19 cases?’

An overwhelming 236 of 290 voters – or 81.4 per cent – said ‘Yes! I would like to know if there are cases in our community’. A total of 50 said ‘Not really, I’m being cautious regardless’, and four said ‘I don’t know’.

Saskatchewan is one of the few provinces that doesn’t reveal where cases are found on a community-by-community basis, releasing that info only if there is currently an outbreak or the potential of one.

Examples include the most recent cases June 29 in Emma Lake, the Hutterite outbreak on June 17, and the La Loche outbreak in April.

New MooseJawToday.com polls are posted every few days, so make sure to check often and make your vote count!

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