GDT: GM 18: Caps vs Utah; 9 pm EST

[DWGie26]

This won’t last with all of the jockeying but it looks good tonight. And damn… 3 metro teams over .700.

 

[troyerlaw]

Anything re: Ovie from Caps or Carberry after the game?
EDIT: Carberry says Ovie still being evaluated, no update till tomorrow

 

[SherVaughn30]

It wasn't directly from the front.

The replay at about 30 seconds in that video shows it coming in mostly from the side and the knee buckles a little bit.

Still nervous. Need another beer.

 

[TheSmokingMan]

This Ovie injury has me a little worried. We're so used to him just popping back up and skating away like nothing ever happened. It's difficult to see him stay down and not be able to return. This made me think of the Kadri knee on knee collision in the playoffs. Hope it's just a bruise or a sprain, but I don't feel real confident about this one.

 

[zappa4ever]

OV stayed on the bench, took the ice after the whistle to test it out, took a few turns and decided it wasn't good enough

He was putting weight on it, didn't wince, and went down the tunnel without help (though limping some)

Those aren't signs of something serious.
Serious is going off on a stretcher
Serious is testing it out after the whistle and wincing in pain and needing help down the tunnel

Watching the incident, sure he took a side impact and buckled a little bit, but was more like a 3/10 instead of 8/10 or worse in terms of "holy shit!" and not some outrageous unnatural bending with obvious injury

Obv none of us know anything yet, but I was encouraged that he stayed on the bench, waited for the whistle to test it out, didn't have extreme reaction while testing it, just shook his head

Hope it was just a stinger and kept out for caution and no need to return with it 6-2

 

[troyerlaw]

OV stayed on the bench, took the ice after the whistle to test it out, took a few turns and decided it wasn't good enough

He was putting weight on it, didn't wince, and went down the tunnel without help (though limping some)

Those aren't signs of something serious.
Serious is going off on a stretcher
Serious is testing it out after the whistle and wincing in pain and needing help down the tunnel

Watching the incident, sure he took a side impact and buckled a little bit, but was more like a 3/10 instead of 8/10 or worse in terms of "holy shit!" and not some outrageous unnatural bending with obvious injury

Obv none of us know anything yet, but I was encouraged that he stayed on the bench, waited for the whistle to test it out, didn't have extreme reaction while testing it, just shook his head

Hope it was just a stinger and kept out for caution and no need to return with it 6-2

Yes but Wilson did the same test spin after his nothing-looking injury a few years ago in playoffs, and he didn't look all that injured. But it turned out to be torn ACL and he was 8 months on IR. So looks can be deceiving. Anyway, let's hope it's day-to-day and nothing worse.

 

[zappa4ever]

Yes but Wilson did the same test spin after his nothing-looking injury a few years ago in playoffs, and he didn't look all that injured. But it turned out to be torn ACL and he was 8 months on IR. So looks can be deceiving. Anyway, let's hope it's day-to-day and nothing worse.

if anyone deserves benefit of the doubt it's Russian Machine, Wilson has never been called Ontario Machine Never Breaks and has missed time several times for various injuries vs OV's legend

handful of "expert" posters on mains claiming MCL blah/blah/blah just like how "expert" posters had McDavid out for 2-3 months when he was out 8 days or whatever it was a few weeks back

I just don't care for misinformation/paranoia before there's any indication of anything

 

[MW6]

To me it looked more like an ancle sprain/strain then a potential knee injury.