Toggle sidebar

Prospect Info: C/RW Matthew Savoie, 9th Overall, 2022 NHL Draft - Traded to Moose Jaw 1/4/24

Status
Not open for further replies.
HOOats

HOOats

born Ruffian
Nov 19, 2007
2,603
3,342
City of Buffalo
Was hoping to hear some good news during business hours from his exam today...

Might be the case that we won't hear an update until camp starts in a few days.
 
Dingo44

Dingo44

We already won the trade
Sponsor
Jul 21, 2015
11,700
14,234
Greensboro, NC
Screenshot_20230919_195244_Instagram.jpg
 
Jim Bob

Jim Bob

RIP RJ
Feb 27, 2002
59,403
40,712
Rochester, NY
theathletic.com

NHL rookie camp standouts: Who impressed in Buffalo, Penticton, Traverse City and Vegas?

A look at the players who helped their chances of cracking the big club or gave strong impressions of future pro potential.
theathletic.com theathletic.com

Buffalo Tournament: Scott Wheeler​

Matt Savoie, C/RW, Buffalo: It didn’t take long watching the games in Buffalo this week to come to the conclusion that the host team was the most talented. Isak Rosen (two goals and four points in two games) was one of the best players on the ice in both of the Sabres’ first two games of the tournament, knifing up coverage on the puck (and as a passer). Zach Benson (a goal and an assist in two games) didn’t look the least bit out of place as an 18-year-old. Jiri Kulich looked like a player who did what he did in the AHL last year. Nikita Novikov’s 100-plus games of KHL experience showed.

But Savoie’s pace and work ethic were just so noticeable, right up until he appeared to hurt his shoulder on his first shift of Monday night’s finale. He routinely looked like he had a half step on the opposition, both in jump and in raw speed whenever he turned on the jets. He plays the game with such drive that his size never once felt like a factor (he has always been sneaky-strong, too).
Click to expand...
The shoulder injury is a tough blow. Savoie already dealt with one in his draft year, and a second injury usually comes with a recommendation for surgery and the six-month layoff that comes with it. For a kid who had a real chance in main camp to push for a nine-game NHL audition (especially after Jack Quinn’s injury), and was a lock to play for Canada at the world juniors, that’s devastating.
Click to expand...
 
Jim Bob

Jim Bob

RIP RJ
Feb 27, 2002
59,403
40,712
Rochester, NY
Dingo44 said:
View attachment 744385
Click to expand...

32 Thoughts: What's next for the Blue Jackets?​


19.
Click to expand...
Buffalo’s Matt Savoie suffered a shoulder injury during a prospect game Monday against Pittsburgh and is expected to miss some of the Sabres’ main training camp. While the OHL, the AHL and the NHL reached a gentlemen’s agreement to allow Shane Wright to go to Coachella Valley if he does not make Seattle, no such allowance is expected for Savoie, the ninth overall pick in the 2022 draft.

Wright was one game shy of automatically being eligible for the AHL, and everyone involved wisely found a solution since the OHL did not have a season in 2021. (Savoie’s actually played more CHL games than Wright and missed the age exemption by one puny day.) All of that said, I wonder if the Sabres follow what the Kraken did with Wright last season. Instead of sending Savoie back to the WHL, they keep him in Buffalo for a while, then to the AHL for conditioning, followed by Team Canada for the World Juniors.
Click to expand...
 

TageGod

Registered User
Aug 31, 2022
2,527
1,701
Dang. I was really betting he would make the roster and run with it. I suppose its still possible he gets a look into the season.
 
tsujimoto74

tsujimoto74

Moderator
May 28, 2012
30,863
23,924
Doug Prishpreed said:
He's going to need surgery on that shoulder eventually, might as well just bite the bullet now. His last shoulder injury took a really long time to heal, on the same shoulder, so I have a feeling this might be the season for him.
Click to expand...

Dang I didn’t know the team orthopedist posted on HF.

Do we even know with any specificity what the shoulder injury is?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Asymmetric Solution and Dirty Dog
Doug Prishpreed

Doug Prishpreed

Registered User
May 1, 2013
11,123
7,586
Brooklyn
Dirty Dog said:
Because some people have a low tolerance for fans stating injury opinions as fact!
Click to expand...
Sounds like a shitty reason to be mean to someone

MarkusKetterer said:
I thought it was that. But I knew my luck it’d be some obscure show I had no interest in checking out lol
Click to expand...
Coincidentally, I just watched this movie again a few weeks ago and still holds up. And not even in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. It's a legit fun/funny movie. Part 1, anyway.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Nikolajs Sillers and Dingo44
Dingo44

Dingo44

We already won the trade
Sponsor
Jul 21, 2015
11,700
14,234
Greensboro, NC
Doug Prishpreed said:
Coincidentally, I just watched this movie again a few weeks ago and still holds up. And not even in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. It's a legit fun/funny movie. Part 1, anyway.
Click to expand...

My wife saw it with me for the first time a few months ago and loved it! I know she did because she actually stayed awake. I agree - it holds up.

I will push my luck and show her Weekend at Bernie's 2 at some point but there are plenty of others she needs to see first.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Doug Prishpreed
Sabresfansince1980

Sabresfansince1980

HFBoards Sponsor
Sponsor
Sep 29, 2011
11,248
5,793
from Wheatfield, NY
ValJamesDuex said:
Shoulders hardly ever heal right
Click to expand...
I just went through a strange and confusing stretch in which I just woke up with my right shoulder aching and having specific sharp pains reaching behind me. It felt much like previous baseball-induced rotator cuff pain but it just didn't make sense, having done nothing to cause an injury other than maybe sleeping wrong. I probably tore a bit of the labrum a couple years ago playing keeper in soccer, but it hadn't bothered me since. Ultimately the pain didn't go away for three months, it was around a 8 out of 10 at times, and the doctor didn't have much explanation.

Turns out I finally self-diagnosed from YT videos that pinpointed everything. For lack of a better term I have what's called "loose shoulder syndrome". Maybe the previous injuries factored in, but I've always been able to seemingly half-way pull my shoulders out of socket without pain, just stretching or whatever. Apparently at some point all the soft tissue can just not hold the ball in the socket tightly enough, and when the ball wants to fall out it causes all sorts of different aches and pain. I have to resort to traditional rotator cuff rehab exercises to build up those cuff muscles and hopefully avoid another episode, but I guess it could happen again at any time. Weird.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Doug Prishpreed
toddkaz

toddkaz

Registered User
Nov 25, 2022
7,142
4,510
Doug Prishpreed said:
Why be a dick head in your response? I saw the injury myself -- it looked worse than his last one.
Click to expand...
What do you mean you saw the injury yourself? We all saw the video. Do you actually see inside his body to see whats going on? Because a lot is going on there and watching a video is meaningless.
 
Gras

Gras

Registered User
Mar 21, 2014
6,701
4,102
Phoenix
Sabresfansince1980 said:
I just went through a strange and confusing stretch in which I just woke up with my right shoulder aching and having specific sharp pains reaching behind me. It felt much like previous baseball-induced rotator cuff pain but it just didn't make sense, having done nothing to cause an injury other than maybe sleeping wrong. I probably tore a bit of the labrum a couple years ago playing keeper in soccer, but it hadn't bothered me since. Ultimately the pain didn't go away for three months, it was around a 8 out of 10 at times, and the doctor didn't have much explanation.

Turns out I finally self-diagnosed from YT videos that pinpointed everything. For lack of a better term I have what's called "loose shoulder syndrome". Maybe the previous injuries factored in, but I've always been able to seemingly half-way pull my shoulders out of socket without pain, just stretching or whatever. Apparently at some point all the soft tissue can just not hold the ball in the socket tightly enough, and when the ball wants to fall out it causes all sorts of different aches and pain. I have to resort to traditional rotator cuff rehab exercises to build up those cuff muscles and hopefully avoid another episode, but I guess it could happen again at any time. Weird.
Click to expand...
I had front biceps tendonitis with possibly a torn labrum back in 2006 and my shoulder has never been right since.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Ad

Latest posts

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

Top Bottom
X