Injury Report: 2024 - 2025 Injury Reports
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Yeah it’s gonna be one of those seasons where we have someone new on IR every 2 weeks.
Brian39
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If you have to go through a season like that every few years, I wouldn't be mad if it turns out to be this one. I just hope that the injuries are largely to non-developing players and aren't career-limiting long-term ones.
I know that’s not how statistics work, but I have the same attitude. If the Bkues are decimated this year and get a high lottery pick, it might be the best outcome.
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Since we're all refreshing the page looking for updates, I'll leave this here
At least according to this doc he doesn't think it looks so severe but who knows at this point.
At least according to this doc he doesn't think it looks so severe but who knows at this point.
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Let's hope it's the MCL "sprain" - Grade 1, Day-to-Day - 1 to 2 weeks out.
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I'd be thrilled with MCL. Not as impactful long-term, doesn't require surgery, will return this season.
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Apparently the announcers during the Leafs game tonight said he’d be out 2-3 weeks. Who knows if their source is accurate.
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I don’t see how an announcer during the game would know what an MRI showed, which hadn’t yet occurred. That’s when you actually diagnose the injury and set expectations for the prognosis. I don’t give much credence to any proclamation like that from Friedman. Maybe ends up being right, but just by luck.
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I'm not putting much stock into it, but there are tests you can do prior to a MRI that can determine which ligament was damaged and if it's completely torn or not. When I did my ACL and meniscus, the MRI was more or less a formality to know what else besides the ACL damaged. I'm at least hopeful that it means it wasn't an obvious torn ACL.
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Friedman isn't the guy to throw things out there without a source telling him, or at least he will say if it's just his speculation or not. And I doubt he'd randomly speculate about injuries. Then again, I can't confirm if he actually said that or not.
I’m very familiar with these tests being a physician and having had an ACL reconstruction myself. I haven’t worked with a pro sports team, but I imagine any time a player has an injury where they can’t bear weight, they’re doing imaging. Measuring displacement can give you confidence that the corresponding ligament is intact, but doesn’t tell you anything about the meniscus cartilage.
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Yep. And I don't know if this is normal, but in my case, when my surgeon opened me up, he realized the meniscus was more damaged than he thought from the MRI and decided to repair it along with my ACL.
And my guess is, Friedman may have heard something from inside where maybe they believe there is no structural damage, but since none of our reporters have said anything, either the Blues haven't told them anything, or they said they are still waiting for MRI to get a complete view of what potential issues there could be.
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That’s pretty damming if Friedman can get information the local writers don’t.
Hopefully Broberg is fine and can resume his role as the lone bright spot many nights.
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JR and Strickland just tweeted this morning about it. And I should clarify, I'm don't think the that local guys aren't getting the info, what I suspect is that they do get the info, but have more of a working relationship, where they either want to wait for full details if possible or don't see the value in breaking something that isn't concrete, and respect the wishes of the club to wait if possible.
Unfortunately we aren't in a hardcore market or a league like NFL when you get injury updates immediately.
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Correct. The doctor dude who tweeted the not severe tweet definitely did some manual pushing and pulling on that knee. It’s the first thing they’re going to do when they get in the locker room. If there was too much “give” in Broberg’s knee in any one direction, then he would not have tweeted that.
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curious. how long for a hockey player to recover from hernia surgery and be back to training hard again?
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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. But just for the sake of complete clarity:
That doctor has zero affiliation with the Blues, does not live/work in St. Louis, did not examine Broberg, and has absolutely zero inside information beyond the videos we have all seen. His "diagnosis" is not remotely based on patient/doctor interaction. His entire thing is using videos to speculate injury severity based on videos of the play where a guy gets hurt.
