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Capuano: Okposo will be out 6-8 weeks with an upper-body injury. #Isles
Potvin29 said:@NYIslanders
Capuano: Okposo will be out 6-8 weeks with an upper-body injury. #Isles
Deebo said:
What followed was one of the scariest sites at MSG in recent history, right up there with defenseman Marc Staal taking a deflected slap shot in the eye in 2013. Lundqvist collapsed to the ice, hands around his throat, his legs flailing and kicking as he desperately gasped for air. Lundqvist said after the game that it took around a minute or two for him to draw air into his lungs.
Lundqvist was without oxygen to his brain for about a minute. Maybe longer.
Trainers from both the Hurricanes and Rangers came onto the ice to examine Lundqvist. His jaw, neck and presumably everything else were checked for damage. With the Rangers leading 2-0 in the second period of a game against a team they could've defeated with Cam Talbot in net, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Lundqvist would exit the game to an ovation.
Instead, Lundqvist stayed in, which in a tough-guy culture is revered by fans as much as players, and received the loudest applause of the night.
Afterward, though, Lundqvist's description of what he felt while down in his crease made that decision troubling.
"When I get hit, obviously it?s painful, and it?s hard to breath for a couple of minutes," Lundqvist said that night. "Very light-headed. I got a little worried the first minute or so but then they told me just to breath and slowly I started to feel better. The first couple of minutes it was more for me to just see is it going to start to feel better after a while. I slowly did. I had some headaches the rest of the game. I guess that?s normal because I couldn?t breath there for a little bit."
Here's where the stupidity of this situation appears. It's hard to say for sure, but this has all the markings of situation where medical professionals should have overridden the desire of a competitive athlete to remain in a game with those symptoms.
Lundqvist had headaches and bouts of dizziness over the final two periods against Carolina. The team is saying Lundqvist did not suffer a concussion, which may make some sense on the surface. But a blow to the head isn't necessarily required for a concussion to occur; if there is enough force behind a blow to the neck?say, for instance, a point-blank wrist shot that sends a frozen rubber disc into the neck?that too can cause a concussion.
We now know, and it?s a scary situation for Lundqvist who was hit in the neck with a Brad Malone wrist shot Saturday Jan. 31. The goaltender they call ?The King? suffered what he called a ?sprained blood vessel? on the play and if the injury was not caught in time, ?If I kept playing I would have run a big risk of having a stroke.?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/henrik-lundqvist-on-vascular-injury---it-could-have-been-worse-002255083.html
CarltonTheBear said:Back on the Lundqvist thing:
We now know, and it?s a scary situation for Lundqvist who was hit in the neck with a Brad Malone wrist shot Saturday Jan. 31. The goaltender they call ?The King? suffered what he called a ?sprained blood vessel? on the play and if the injury was not caught in time, ?If I kept playing I would have run a big risk of having a stroke.?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/henrik-lundqvist-on-vascular-injury---it-could-have-been-worse-002255083.html
So basically the Rangers allowed their franchise player to play through a potentially fatal injury. Job well done.
Heroic Shrimp said:Patrick Kane left his game tonight with an upper body injury, looks like left shoulder. Didn't look pretty. I wonder if this could change Chicago's approach to the trade deadline.
CarltonTheBear said:Heroic Shrimp said:Patrick Kane left his game tonight with an upper body injury, looks like left shoulder. Didn't look pretty. I wonder if this could change Chicago's approach to the trade deadline.
They're saying it might be a broken collarbone, out 6-10 weeks. He was leading the league in scoring and getting some Hart chatter too.
@NHLBlackhawks
Patrick Kane undergoes successful surgery, full recovery anticipated in approx. 12 weeks.
Potvin29 said:@NHLBlackhawks
Patrick Kane undergoes successful surgery, full recovery anticipated in approx. 12 weeks.
Had surgery to repair broken clavicle. That'll be most of playoffs.
Peter D. said:For a brief second, completely ignoring salary/long-term implications and other logistics, I wondered if Chicago would make a play for Kessel. Many consider them to be the same player, so he would fit in there.
CarltonTheBear said:Peter D. said:For a brief second, completely ignoring salary/long-term implications and other logistics, I wondered if Chicago would make a play for Kessel. Many consider them to be the same player, so he would fit in there.
We can "rent" Kessel to them for a 1st round pick, we get him back after the playoffs. That'd be pretty funny.
CarltonTheBear said:Peter D. said:For a brief second, completely ignoring salary/long-term implications and other logistics, I wondered if Chicago would make a play for Kessel. Many consider them to be the same player, so he would fit in there.
We can "rent" Kessel to them for a 1st round pick, we get him back after the playoffs. That'd be pretty funny.