Injury Report: 2024-2025 Injury thread | HF’s Longest Thread Just Got Longer

[Foppa2118]

I don’t really believe Bednar that nobody is close to returning. These two are looking pretty good to me.

If that ends up the case, I think we can conclude Bednar is just f***ing with us.

He'll have gone from being way too optimistic on his injury returns for like 8 years, to being way too pessimistic all of sudden with multiple players.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

If that ends up the case, I think we can conclude Bednar is just f***ing with us.

He'll have gone from being way too optimistic on his injury returns for like 8 years, to being way too pessimistic all of sudden with multiple players.

I'm not sure who it was but someone posted a video of Manson the other day doing footwork between three pucks. I know he has a reputation for being the slower, defensive oriented, physical dman... but watching that video, holy crap he actually is fleet of foot. Maybe it's just that the bar has become incredibly high for these guys, but I see Manson do things that a plug in the early 00s couldn't have even dreamed of doing. I think he HAS to be close.

As for JD, I'm not sure. Folks keep assuming it's a muscle thing but I've been worried it was a head thing. Typical Avs media lockdown though and we will never know what exactly it is that's bothering him unless he makes a comment about it after he returns. Wishing him the absolute best though because CMac's f***ery of the budget forced him into two years of one year contracts. Yes, the first was a prove it deal, but he should have been rewarded with more than what he got from us on this new one...we just didn't have the space to do right by him. But if this effects his next deal in any way, it will be a crying shame.

 

[Foppa2118]

I'm not sure who it was but someone posted a video of Manson the other day doing footwork between three pucks. I know he has a reputation for being the slower, defensive oriented, physical dman... but watching that video, holy crap he actually is fleet of foot. Maybe it's just that the bar has become incredibly high for these guys, but I see Manson do things that a plug in the early 00s couldn't have even dreamed of doing. I think he HAS to be close.

As for JD, I'm not sure. Folks keep assuming it's a muscle thing but I've been worried it was a head thing. Typical Avs media lockdown though and we will never know what exactly it is that's bothering him unless he makes a comment about it after he returns. Wishing him the absolute best though because CMac's f***ery of the budget forced him into two years of one year contracts. Yes, the first wa a prove it, but he should have been rewarded with more than what he got from us...we just didn't have the space to do right by him. But if this effects his next deal in any way, it will be a crying shame.

Yeah, Manson's always been pretty quick for a big guy. Big part of why he fit in well on the Avs.

They need bigger bodies on defense, but they need to be able to skate, and handle the puck ok to play Bednar's system. Hard to find defenseman like that.

 

[dahrougem2]

I'm not sure who it was but someone posted a video of Manson the other day doing footwork between three pucks. I know he has a reputation for being the slower, defensive oriented, physical dman... but watching that video, holy crap he actually is fleet of foot. Maybe it's just that the bar has become incredibly high for these guys, but I see Manson do things that a plug in the early 00s couldn't have even dreamed of doing. I think he HAS to be close.

As for JD, I'm not sure. Folks keep assuming it's a muscle thing but I've been worried it was a head thing. Typical Avs media lockdown though and we will never know what exactly it is that's bothering him unless he makes a comment about it after he returns. Wishing him the absolute best though because CMac's f***ery of the budget forced him into two years of one year contracts. Yes, the first was a prove it deal, but he should have been rewarded with more than what he got from us on this new one...we just didn't have the space to do right by him. But if this effects his next deal in any way, it will be a crying shame.

Manson is a tremendous skater for his size and style of play. Gets up and down the ice and moves laterally quite well. It's a big reason why he gets a lot of pucks to the net from the point.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Drouin skated for weeks before returning, so him skating doesn’t mean much.