Injury Report: Eichel suffers high ankle sprain in Oct 12th practice; out 6-8 weeks
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First i thought after seeing jack was hurt. Reinhart never plays wing again on this team.
haseoke39
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Ennis - ROR - Okposo
Kane - Reinhart - Girgensons
Foligno - Larsson - Gionta
Des - Grant - Fasching
The team's weakness is still defense. We might not make the playoffs, but it won't be because Jack Eichel missed six weeks with a high ankle sprain. This forward crew is good enough to lead a .500 team.
Kane - Reinhart - Girgensons
Foligno - Larsson - Gionta
Des - Grant - Fasching
The team's weakness is still defense. We might not make the playoffs, but it won't be because Jack Eichel missed six weeks with a high ankle sprain. This forward crew is good enough to lead a .500 team.
Lock3Boys
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Bakes has always been the man. Does he ever post here anymore?
Crossing my fingers that looked way worse than it is, and he will miss minimal time.
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Gabrielor
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.... over reaction to think that 2 overall pick, who is a center, would take the opportunity and run with it? Um ok.
Dreakon13
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I like that group... Reinhart no longer occupying the 2nd line wing, opens another door for Girgensons at least. Since Girgs doesn't have much of a place on the team prior to 15 going down.
Let's say, worst case scenario, he misses the entire season. Do we still lose a year on his contract?
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I'm kind of over the injury at this point. Probably had a good 30-45 min mental breakdown.
But I look at it as, if we're so worried about our team after one injury then what's the state of our team? Games are at least 60 minutes, we have a guy go down who plays 1/3 of the game time on average. Yes, he's our franchise guy, but contending teams(whether playoff contending teams or stanley cup contending teams) shouldn't have to worry about one player going down.
Just move on and hopefully we have enough depth to hold us over until he comes back healthy.
But I look at it as, if we're so worried about our team after one injury then what's the state of our team? Games are at least 60 minutes, we have a guy go down who plays 1/3 of the game time on average. Yes, he's our franchise guy, but contending teams(whether playoff contending teams or stanley cup contending teams) shouldn't have to worry about one player going down.
Just move on and hopefully we have enough depth to hold us over until he comes back healthy.
100% yes
One positive here is Buffalo only has 8 October games. If Eichel only needs a few weeks to recover, he won't miss too many games
Dreakon13
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This is more my concern than anything at this point. a) Don't rush him back and b) Please please please don't be one of those injuries that the player just "isn't the same again" even when they are healed.
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Bang on, great post. It sucks and is a bit of a buzzkill but it does not make or break our season. We aren't the first team to lose our star player for a period of time.
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Yes. It would also count as an accrued season for the purposes of unrestricted free agency.
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IMO, "a few weeks" is the absolute best case scenario here.
I'm fully prepped for a "New Years at best" scenario.
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haseoke39
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I'm prepared for him to be in the lineup tomorrow and everyone is all
He does have generational ankles.
Rhett4
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I'm prepared for him to be in the lineup tomorrow and everyone is all
I like optimism. Tell me more.
