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Joe Colborne

?I had a couple ligaments that were torn, the kind that affect the rotation of your wrist,? said Colborne.

Furthering complications, he also had a broken bone in the same wrist and never knew about it until he went in for surgery.

?You would think when you break a bone in your hand it would be painful but it wasn?t any worse than the ligaments,? said Colborne. ?I don?t even know when it broke.?

The 6?5 213-pound centreman could not confirm if the break happened ?just after Christmas,? which was when he tore at least two ligaments, or if it happened while playing with cortisone shots to help relieve the pain caused by the ligaments.

Regardless, it was his choice to play through the pain from January to June as he was advised by team medical staff that suiting up was not going to damage him long term.

Leafs? VP of Hockey Operations, Dave Poulin, agreed that if Colborne felt fine to play and there was no chance of more damage (to the ligaments), then the organization was okay with him playing instead of being sat out.

?Providing there is no chance of further damage it does become the players? choice, obviously with medical staff weighing in,? said Poulin through email. ?From an organizational standpoint we would never put a player in a position to suffer further damage. These are not finite situations and each one is handled on its own merit. Very often a player will have to go through the experience to know whether he can play up to his standards with that specific injury.?

The biggest concerns the Calgary native dealt with, once his pain was relieved, was strength and the ability to do anything with the puck. Without having the power to hold his stick properly his production drastically dropped in January and he entered the post season on a 24-game goalless drought. From January until the end of the regular season he scored just five goals in 43 games. This was the same player who started the season with eight goals in eight games.

?You sit there and try not to let it affect you but every time you shoot or make a hard pass, or something like that, it sends a shockwave through you and I think it creeps into your head and you start looking for ways to not shoot.?
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Full article: http://kylethereporter.com/2012/09/17/joe-colbornes-wrist-injury-much-worse-than-originally-thought/
 
Highlander said:
Lets bring him up to Centre for Phil.  He can dish the puck
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If Mac can't go I'd be willing to try him with Phil and JVR for a game or two, play Bozie with Kadri and Frattin and put Komarov on Grabo and Kooly's wing.

JVR-JoeC-Phil

Leo-Grabo-Kooly

Naz-Bozie-Frattin
 
any reason for his bump in points?  Who have his linemates been?  Is it just a matter of getting strength back in his injured wrist or is he getting more icetime with so many of the kids up with the big club? 
 
sneakyray said:
any reason for his bump in points?  Who have his linemates been?  Is it just a matter of getting strength back in his injured wrist or is he getting more icetime with so many of the kids up with the big club?
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Minutes, I'd guess.
 
With his hot streak he has 22 points in 38 games.  That to me isn't enough to warrant a callup, let alone to get him on the top line.  He was also a -1 in those 10 games, so he's putting up points but giving them up too.
 
what was his injury though?  wasn't it a broken wrist with ligament damage to boot?

pretty serious and wouldn't surprise me if it took him this long to get back to full strength and health.
 
L K said:
With his hot streak he has 22 points in 38 games.  That to me isn't enough to warrant a callup, let alone to get him on the top line.  He was also a -1 in those 10 games, so he's putting up points but giving them up too.
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That doesn't mean he's giving them up.  +/- isn't a reliable indicator of that, and even if you wanted to take something from it, a -1 probably isn't indicative of anything.

Matt Frattin had 2 goals in his last 15 AHL games and look how he's doing in the NHL.
 
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