Injury Report: Eichel suffers high ankle sprain in Oct 12th practice; out 6-8 weeks

[Gabrielor]

Please tell me it's just a small tweak, and he'll be back in a couple games

 

[Sabre Dance]

From the looks of it, high ankle sprain or fracture. Either way out a while.

 

[jc17]

@BuffNewsVogl
Sabres' Zemgus Girgensons on Jack Eichel injury: "I was just trying to get the puck, and we got tangled. He just fell awkward."

I stand behind all of my irrational Girgensons hate and would like to double down on it

Zemgus reeeaaallllly wants to play center.

 

[couture23]

Disco confirms its an ankle injury

Better than a knee.

 

[SatanwasaSlovak]

Golf sounds like a fun hobby...

 

[Rhett4]

Ankle beats knee. Sprain can still be weeks; a break is awhile.

 

[Dingo44]

I'm upset but I'm going to hold off on ritual suicide until I know if it's something that's a few weeks, months, or the year.

 

[Vito_81]

Nylander recall?

 

[jc17]

Ankle beats knee. Sprain can still be weeks; a break is awhile.

Yeah, and as far as I know not many careers are killed by anke stuff.

 

[Moskau]

Seems about right. Freak injury aside it continues to baffle me that professional sports leagues want their training camps to last so long and make the teams play so many pre-season games when there's scientific proof a well trained athlete needs two weeks tops to get back into shape. I realize that training camp is for fringe guys and rookies to prove they belong on a team but two weeks and 3 pre season games should be plenty. Every team seems to go into the season with 2 or 3 key injuries just so guys like Derek Grant can get a roster spot? It's even worse in football. Good luck starting the season with 3/4th of your starters in that sport.

 

[Myllz]

Clearly just tweak, he's fine.

Please.

PLEASE.

 

[LaxSabre]

 

[Kc232]

Disco confirms its an ankle injury

That's at least better than a knee.

 

[Zman5778]

Oh my.

It's the first "top headline" on ESPN's front page.


This is bad.

 

[joshjull]

Seems about right. Freak injury aside it continues to baffle me that professional sports leagues want their training camps to last so long and make the teams play so many pre-season games when there's scientific proof a well trained athlete needs two weeks tops to get back into shape. I realize that training camp is for fringe guys and rookies to prove they belong on a team but two weeks and 3 pre season games should be plenty. Every team seems to go into the season with 2 or 3 key injuries just so guys like Derek Grant can get a roster spot? It's even worse in football. Good luck starting the season with 3/4th of your starters in that sport.

I agree with your overall sentiment but I fail to see what that has to do with this injury. It was fluky thing in a practice

 

[Sabre Dance]

Sabres season starting just like Bills season, off field issues, contract disputes, and injuries. Hopefully Dan can bring the team together.

 

[Brock Radunske]

Nylander recall?

Came here to see about this...
Awful to see Eichel go down, but I did just draft Nylander in a keeper-league...

 

[jBuds]

High ankle sprains take a long time to heal from.

 

[Brock Radunske]

High ankle sprains take a long time to heal from.

Yeh but there is no career altering issues associated with a high-ankle sprain.
Knee, on the other hand...

 

[couture23]

High ankle sprains take a long time to heal from.

They can, but not always.

2 months is probably the average.

 

[Rhett4]

Nylander recall?

They still have enough bodies if ROR plays and With Grant and Fasching up. They may grab someone to take west, though, and I'm thinking COR to carry an extra center.

 

[dkollidas]

Clearly just tweak, he's fine.

Please.

PLEASE.

Everyone start praying to whomever, whatever you do or do not believe in.
God, Allah, the Force, Vishnu, Buddha.
Hopefully their powers combine and magically heal our prophet

 

[Dingo44]

Ankle beats knee. Sprain can still be weeks; a break is awhile.

That's what I'm reading. Hopefully it's a couple of months at the most. Who knows - but it's going to be the most watched and best treated ankle in Buffalo for a while.

 

[Moskau]

I agree with your overall sentiment but I fail to see what that has to do with this injury. It was fluky thing in a practice

I stated it was fluky. It's something that can happen in the middle of the season too. But the season should have been underway already and maybe these guys aren't going so balls to the wall in practice. I hate that such a large part of the NHL game is having some luck with injuries. Having such long training camps just makes that factor even greater.

I basically just hate how long TC is for all sports and think it's ridiculous that teams play almost 1/10th of their total games in the pre-season and never turn down a chance to rant about it. Just get to the ****ing season healthy and start playing so fans can watch a full healthy team for at least a few games each year. And stay off drugs NFL players.

 

[Lock3Boys]

I only looked at the still pic, but if that's just a sprain I would be shocked. It looks like a twig is snapping FFS.