Eerily similar thing happened to Walman at the end of last season with the Wings where Lalonde scratched him. It seems like Walman has some lingering injury. He said it was tough to get out of bed (yikes reminds me of Couture).
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And then there was the way the season ended, with Walman playing just two of Detroit’s final 14 games as the team pushed to make the playoffs. During that time, Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde referred to Walman as “not completely himself,” a vague answer that some fans found frustrating about an important piece missing key games.
“I love Derek, and I think the coaches there were great with me,” Walman said. “But I just wish that situation was handled different.”
It’s not typical for an NHL player to want information about their injury situations to be made
more public. But in this case, Walman did wish more people would have been aware of what he was dealing with, and about the circumstances around him not playing.
“I guess I can tell you now: I was injured,” he said. “I was pretty badly injured, and I was doing everything I could to play through it. Trying to give myself a chance every day to be in the lineup. And got to a point where there was like five, six games in a row where I was like really hinder(ed) on the ice, and to the point where it was tough doing everyday things, like getting out of bed, and all that (stuff). Lower-body injury.”
