Blue Jackets fire assistant coach Sylvain Lefebvre over COVID-19 vaccination refusal
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The Columbus Blue Jackets said Monday that the team has replaced an assistant coach who declined to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
Sylvain Lefebvre was replaced on coach Brad Larsen's staff by Steve McCarthy because "Lefebvre has decided not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and thus will not be able to perform the duties required of him given current NHL protocols," according to a team statement. NHL coaches and other team staff who closely interact with players are required to be fully vaccinated. "While we are disappointed, we respect that this decision is a personal one for Sylvain and wish him well," Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said of Lefebvre, a former longtime coach in the American Hockey League. WATCH l Discussing mandatory vaccine passports as fans return to stadiums: The ex-NHL defenceman, who played a combined five seasons with Montreal and Toronto during a 14-year career, was added to the staff in July by Larsen, the former Blue Jackets assistant who replaced the fired John Tortorella. McCarthy is a one-time NHL blue-liner who was promoted from the Cleveland Monsters, the team's AHL affiliate, for which he was an assistant coach.
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