katfude
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I hate that we needed 2 injury threads.
Yeah I’ve never considered it anything but a concussion. I mean he skated on his own a couple of days back in the beginning, was supposedly feeling good but then all of a sudden he was off the ice again for a chunk of time. Players skate with shoulder injuries to keep the legs fresh. Byram has only skated in the middle of his setbacks.People kept trying to tell me that Byram was a shoulder injury in the last thread, I’m standing by the only thing that fits the observed pattern of reports and skating/not skating is concussion. And COVID respiratory effects/fatigue/brain fog could cause a setback for someone with a concussion but not for someone with a shoulder injury.
Kid missed games after getting punched in the head a bunch of times and then hit in the head by cheap shot. Sure the shoulder could be involved but I’ll believe there was no brain scrambling if the medical report gets published and not otherwise
"If he returns"
Oof...
All I can say is f*** Kolesar
"If he returns"
Oof...
"If he returns"
Oof...
I hate the phasing there. It sounds to me like Bednar would rather play Nemeth over Bo even when healthy.
Once healthy, I think it will be great for Bo to get a conditioning stint with the Eagles. Let him go down there to get back to game speed and feast on the AHL to get some confidence
Graves only looks worse because he's getting more and tougher minutes. Nemeth and Graves are the same player right now. They're both not good enough. Nemeth won't work on this team. He's too slow. He may have worked in Detroit, but he won't here. People seem to romanticize his time here. He was shit. He wasn't good on the PK, even though I know people believe otherwise. Getting him was a subtraction by addition. Our AHL tweeners would've be a better fit.If this were a few years ago and the Avs sorely needed more skill on the back end then yes, I wouldn't be down with this. However, with Makar, Toews, and Girard already there I can see why he doesn't want to rush the teenage sensation back. Let's remember, Byram had a fantastic start to his NHL career but also served up some stinkers down the stretch.
He also didn't rule out the possibility of Byram, just pumped the brakes more or less.
The point of contention for me isn't Nemeth--it's Graves. Right now #27 is playing like he has NO business being in the team's top four. A Byram return to me would be more beneficial because it means shoving Graves down the lineup where he belongs. Nemeth was brought in to provide some stability on the third pairing, and once he knocks off the rust, that's what he'll do.
Most frustrating of all is f***ing MacDonald getting injured off the ice during the pause at the worst goddamned possible time.
Graves only looks worse because he's getting more and tougher minutes. Nemeth and Graves are the same player right now. They're both not good enough. Nemeth won't work on this team. He's too slow. He may have worked in Detroit, but he won't here. People seem to romanticize his time here. He was shit. He wasn't good on the PK, even though I know people believe otherwise. Getting him was a subtraction by addition. Our AHL tweeners would've be a better fit.
We really need 1 more defensemen or I fear that our playoffs will end in a early exit.
They'll try and take out everyone. They know they can't beat a fully healthy Avs team. The Avs have owned them the past 2 years (7-2-2), and they haven't scored more than 3 goals in regulation in any of those 11 games, and only topped 3 once in OT. In fact, they've only topped 3 goals vs the Avs 3 times since they came into existence in 2017On this note, I'm 100% sure Vegas is going to try and take out both Makar and G if we play them.
Who got hurt last night/tested positive for Covid?