This won’t last with all of the jockeying but it looks good tonight. And damn… 3 metro teams over .700.
GDT: GM 18: Caps vs Utah; 9 pm EST
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troyerlaw
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Anything re: Ovie from Caps or Carberry after the game?
EDIT: Carberry says Ovie still being evaluated, no update till tomorrow
EDIT: Carberry says Ovie still being evaluated, no update till tomorrow
SherVaughn30
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TheSmokingMan
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
SherVaughn30
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He wasn't even hit in the knee. To me it looked more like the lower side of his left leg. And after looking at the video multiple times, I'm leaning toward McBain being intentional with the contact. OV is looking forward, but maybe he sees McBain with the corner of his eye but doesn't suspect he will be hit or he thought McBain would avoid him? McBain is skating in a straight line but looking down. To me it's a douche move made to look unintentional.
SherVaughn30
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I don't know. To me more like side of the calf. I have had both knee and high ankle sprains as a goalie(both times I felt a sharp pop). It was neither for him from what I could tell. If there were positives, OV was able to get up eventually on his own power to glide to the bench. He came out on the ice again to test it, did not feel comfortable enough, and limped on his own power down the players walkway to the dressing room. If OV knew it was something worse, then he would walk straight to the locker room or have someone carry his weight on injured leg. I think the trainer wouldn't have allowed OV to skate or walk on his own if he thought it was worse.
ovikovy817
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f****** useless arizona franchise.
Hope he will be okay. Don't want this hit to slow down his play.
Hope he will be okay. Don't want this hit to slow down his play.
Firsov99
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It still can be a knee injury though. When I tore my ACL while playing soccer years ago, the contact was at the lower side of my leg.
It would be so deflating if he suffers his first serious injury at such an inopportune time.
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I don't think it's likely to be knee. It's lower leg. On the reverse angle you can see his ankle bend inward from the impact.
He put a lot of weight on that leg getting up from the ice and in stepping onto the bench area. Later when he tested it he didn't wince in pain and tried turning on that foot but didn't like what he felt.
Either a really bad contusion or a mild sprain is my guess. Probably decided to play it safe with the game mostly in-hand.
Props to Big Willie for sticking up for his captain, intentional hit or not.
He put a lot of weight on that leg getting up from the ice and in stepping onto the bench area. Later when he tested it he didn't wince in pain and tried turning on that foot but didn't like what he felt.
Either a really bad contusion or a mild sprain is my guess. Probably decided to play it safe with the game mostly in-hand.
Props to Big Willie for sticking up for his captain, intentional hit or not.
Langway
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Thinking of txmd at a time like this.
Obviously not a doctor but from personal experience: I’ve had this kind of collision before and the best way to describe it is like a Charlie horse from your knee to your ankle. The point of impact hurts and your knee hurts. The impact on the shin bones rocks your knee and ankle laterally and it’s pretty scary at first, you’re not quite if something is really wrong because you really can’t put any pressure on it and it hurts to bend your knee. I had a bone bruise and some kind of sprain in my knee, took me about 2-3 weeks to feel back to normal again. Hopefully not much more than that for Ovi, if anything at all.
This is the same kind of impact that Aidan Hutchinson had and he suffered a compound fracture. There’s just not a lot of give when it comes to your shin so that collision impact energy is going somewhere. In my case it was more towards my knee, thankfully, instead of breaking my leg.
This is the same kind of impact that Aidan Hutchinson had and he suffered a compound fracture. There’s just not a lot of give when it comes to your shin so that collision impact energy is going somewhere. In my case it was more towards my knee, thankfully, instead of breaking my leg.
Neil Racki
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Sports injury expert speculates "highly unlikely but possible" ACL injury for Alex Ovechkin
Sports injury expert speculates "highly unlikely but possible" ACL injury for Alex Ovechkin-------------------------------------------------
Went looking for any update and found this gem of click bait
Y’all were panicking aboot an Ovie injury in training camp too.
Insert meme with bus driver pointing to Russian Machine Never Breaks sign.
Insert meme with bus driver pointing to Russian Machine Never Breaks sign.
Blades Ov Steel
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just an IMO.. if Ovie came out and tested it again it's more than likely leaning DTD than W2W
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Blades Ov Steel
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It's not surprising, but still amazing, to see so many other posters on the main boards in denial about Ovechkin and the Caps being as good as they are this year.
Someone speculated that its not the knee on his left leg, but the slash to his right leg that hurts. Watching it in slow motion, it could be this. Gotta see which leg he was favoring when he walked off.
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