Injury Report: Copp placed on IR

[Astyanax]

I am a Copp defender. I generally admire the way this guy has been thrown up and down the lineup and asked to literally play every single role whenever and wherever we needed him with literally every single person in this lineup so others can be comfortable being focused on just their thing.... and he's done it without complaint.

The fact in a player poll he was voted as the best guy or best leader (I forget the specifics), tells me he's just be a rock for this team and the fans here dog piles on him being 'an issue'. I think it's pretty telling that the Wings generally struggled to protect the lead the last two third periods because of poor play at the end of the game, the inability to pot an empty netter, our top players all looking gassed, and letting not 1 but 2 goals in succession because they allowed the momentum and negativity run roughshod on them.

These are all literally things Copp does: he takes difficult defensive assignments, he is often the 2nd highest PK ice time forward, defensive zone starts, and the reason he gets so many empty netters is because he's often trusted to be the forward first over the wall in those situations. We're going to miss him and I hope that Compher can step up and take that role

Like the player, never liked the contract. Too much money and or term. If either were less, I would have loved it. Kind of the same feeling about chiarot. TJ I kind of always liked, maybe too much money, but often scores big goals a la chris Drury.

 

[Henkka]

If Copp injury is serious, it will be interesting to see his importance for this team.

We'll look on the team stats for the last 25 games, can compare them, with and without Copp.