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2014-2015 Injuries Thread

Deebo said:
Report: Rangers' Lundqvist out a month
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Took a shot to the throat. When I first heard I wondered why his throat protector didn't stop it, and it turns out McDonagh accidentally lifted it up while he was tangled with a forward in front of the net just as the shot came. That's some scary stuff.

Dave Lozo also goes through the craziest part of this story here (video of the incident included): http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2356497-did-new-york-rangers-err-in-handling-henrik-lundqvists-throat-injury

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.
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Not only did he stay in the game, but he played another game just two days later. Now he's out for a month.
 
That's insane. I don't care what the diagnosis is. The guy can't breath for a significant amount of time and the team lets him stay in?
 
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
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So basically the Rangers allowed their franchise player to play through a potentially fatal injury. Job well done.
 
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
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So basically the Rangers allowed their franchise player to play through a potentially fatal injury. Job well done.
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The important thing is he proved he's tough.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
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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.
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Art Ross candidates are dropping like flies.

Hey Chicago, can I interest you in a Joffrey Lupul?  He's been completely healthy for days, I swear!
 
Potvin29 said:
‏@NHLBlackhawks

Patrick Kane undergoes successful surgery, full recovery anticipated in approx. 12 weeks.
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Had surgery to repair broken clavicle.  That'll be most of playoffs.
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That really sucks for Chicago...and it's go time for them.  I wonder if they go hunting for a replacement that they can trade off in the summer, barring an expiring contract rental of that caliber. 
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
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We can "rent" Kessel to them for a 1st round pick, we get him back after the playoffs. That'd be pretty funny.
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That's more or less Indecent Proposal in NHL form, with Kessel as Demi Moore.
 
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.
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We can "rent" Kessel to them for a 1st round pick, we get him back after the playoffs. That'd be pretty funny.
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You know, I always wondered why teams wouldn't get more into cahoots with one another like that. 
 
Phi Kessel to the Blackhawks for a conditional 2015 2nd round draft pick and "future considerations". The pick becomes a 1st rounder if the Hawks make it to the 3rd round, which I'm betting that they would. The "future considerations" would of course be Phil once the playoffs are completed.

The Blackhawks get the absolute best Patrick Kane replacement that they can, and they won't have to worry about salary cap concerns afterward. I started with a 2nd round pick to make the risk very small on their part, but if they have playoff success with Phil they need to pay for it, which they likely wouldn't mind doing. Especially since if they make it to the 3rd round Kane would probably be ready to play as well and that would just be ridiculous for them.

The Leafs basically get a free 1st round draft pick, and without Kessel for the rest of the season their tank would go into overdrive. They can then trade Kessel for a real return in the offseason.

I know this all sounds crazy and 100% wouldn't actually happen, but I actually think it would be really beneficial for both sides.
 
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