Injury Report: 2024 - 2025 Injury Reports

[BleedBlue14]

We might legitimately have a bottom 5 center group with Thomas out, and our forward core in general doesn't look at all intimidating now. Just hoping Thomas comes back at 100%.

I'm not sure we even have enough centers to qualify as a center group without Thomas

 

[stl76]

Big ooof. That’s a tough pill to swallow.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

Schwartz had surgery though, they haven't said anything about whether Thoms is or isn't having it, so there is a chance it wont be nearly that long

That is fair. I was too sick to my stomach from the headline to read the article to see whether or not he was having surgery.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

If it’s a straightforward fracture, it’s probably not a big enough setback to put the Blues into lottery for the first pick territory. But maybe playoffs become unlikely.

I was never that worried about the outcome this season, but I want to see a competitive club where the young players are rising.

I’m not going to root for losses and a higher draft pick at this point.

 

[Stealth JD]

Need to play for the shootout…zero-zero ties thru 65-minutes are the goal now.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Need to play for the shootout…zero-zero ties thru 65-minutes are the goal now.

We can be the western conference islanders

 

[Majorityof1]

Need to play for the shootout…zero-zero ties thru 65-minutes are the goal now.

Good plan after losing our by far best offensive player. Except,...he is also our best defensive C by far as well

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

 

[Brian39]

We might legitimately have a bottom 5 center group with Thomas out, and our forward core in general doesn't look at all intimidating now. Just hoping Thomas comes back at 100%.

Might?

 

[Robb_K]

If it’s a straightforward fracture, it’s probably not a big enough setback to put the Blues into lottery for the first pick territory. But maybe playoffs become unlikely.

I was never that worried about the outcome this season, but I want to see a competitive club where the young players are rising.

I’m not going to root for losses and a higher draft pick at this point.

I agree. I think this will make it VERY tough for The Blues to even reach the lowest Wild Card spot in The Playoffs, whereas, WITH Thomas all season, and Dvorsky coming up some weeks in the future, I was confident they'd have a decent chance at it, and possibly even surprise everyone to finish 3rd in The Division. But now, realistically, that is all probably a severe longshot, at best. It WILL likely mean that Dvorsky will be called up significantly earlier than he'd have been, otherwise, and he'll get more ice time for sure, unless The Blues trade for a veteran centre. I hope they don't just waste future player assets on an overpaid 30+ fill-in centre. And because THEY will be seen as the desperate team in the transaction, they certainly won't be able to find a "bargain deal" for a young player that's in their favour. They'll have to overpay for a player that will just keep them afloat, and likely not get them into the playoffs. So, I recommend that they don't do that.

Beyond that, I'm wondering if they'll also bring up Dean and Move Sundqvist to the wing, as they'll be no pressure at all to make The Playoffs, and maybe they'll use this time to get their youthful forwards experience playing (and growing) together.

 

[BlueDream]

I agree. I think this will make it VERY tough for The Blues to even reach the lowest Wild Card spot in The Playoffs, whereas, WITH Thomas all season, and Dvorsky coming up some weeks in the future, I was confident they'd have a decent chance at it, and possibly even surprise everyone to finish 3rd in The Division. But now, realistically, that is all probably a severe longshot, at best. It WILL likely mean that Dvorsky will be called up significantly earlier than he'd have been, otherwise, and he'll get more ice time for sure, unless The Blues trade for a veteran centre. I hope they don't just waste future player assets on an overpaid 30+ fill-in centre. And because THEY will be seen as the desperate team in the transaction, they certainly won't be able to find a "bargain deal" for a young player that's in their favour. They'll have to overpay for a player that will just keep them afloat, and likely not get them into the playoffs. So, I recommend that they don't do that.

Beyond that, I'm wondering if they'll also bring up Dean and Move Sundqvist to the wing, as they'll be no pressure at all to make The Playoffs, and maybe they'll use this time to get their youthful forwards experience playing (and growing) together.

I don’t really want to see Dean up here anytime soon. First I need some confirmation that he can actually score at the AHL level, because we have yet to see that.

Hopefully he can get it going so that we can call him up later in the season.

 

[TurgPavs]

Best case scenario is Thomas is cleared in 6 weeks and has a short 1-2 week rehab to get back in shape. However that means he misses 25-30 games.
Have no idea why you wouldnt bring up Dvo. There was 8 forwards taken in the top 10 of that draft, 5 of those forwards are in the NHL now. Move Buch up to play between Bolduc and Kyrou, and play Dvo between Saad and Neighbours.

 

[TK 421]

The answer here isn't to abandon your development plan for a 19 year old kid and thrust him into NHL minutes simply because your only top 6 center and best player went down. He can't fix this, he can get huge minutes in the AHL where he can more quickly gain the confidence needed to take that next step though and he should be left in Springfield to do that.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

No no no

We are NOT Devo