The NHL Thread

[Joanne]

With the NHL high school. As much as I love pittsburgh... there's no reason why high ankle sprains cause tears and resting for over 2 months. on top of kennedy with mono. roberts with a broken leg. oh god. i could go on. my team needs to grow some manliness

[Dr. Hobo]

high ankle sprains are the worst type of sprain of the ankle
the ankle is paramount for pushing off (especially the higher parts and not just on ice) hence sid resting.. hell high ankle sprains also effect athletes in other sports (ie. football, a high ankle sprain to a running back or qb depending on the severity can result in significant time off)

personally i wouldnt doubt sid's toughness given the kids been playing against guys older, bigger, stronger than him since he was 7 or 8 or something like that

[Joanne]

i'm not talking so much about sid, but more with Fleury... I love sid's determination, and i think that at this point in time its not worth the health risk to play him. There's always another season. I'm just talking about the ability of my team to miraculously have so many injured and sick at the same time.

[Dr. Hobo]

haha i forgot about fleury's injury although i'd have to think an ankle injury to a goalie who plays butterfly would be worse.

then again i havent seen MA play in ages (or any hockey at all since the cup finals save some highlights a month or so ago and some random youtube vids) so i cant actually remember what style he plays but yeah.. on top of that, goalies are odd creatures. patrick roy only ate spaghetti in a certain way and a specific recipe before every game. he talked to his posts constantly, etc etc so theres a lot of superstitions and what not + they be fickle haha

as for the whole injury thing.. years ago, at one point montreal had their captain out with cancer, their leading scorer had some guy skate over his arm (when they were playing well despite koivu being out), lost one of their top 4 d-men, then lost their starting goaltender for a bit and then someone else and yeah.. i think that year they set the record for man-games lost to injury (which has since been broken mind you)

im fairly sure the canucks d alone broke it this year haha, salo, ohlund, mitchell and bieksa have all been injured at one point or another.. their top 4 consists of ohlund, mitchell, salo and bieksa with their bottom 2 being miller (#6 on the depth chart) and krajicek (who's also been injured)

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