Injury Report: Injury Thread '24-‘25 (Post 1 has current injury status)

[Mr Positive]

Arvidsson coming back soon, maybe next week, is good but has me thinking

This guy is injury prone but if he could reliably ride the IR from the deadline to the playoffs then that could be asset in the cap era

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

According to KK, Arvidsson hopefully to begin practicing this week. I won’t hold my breath.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

 

[Gordy Elbows]

It’s not much to go on but the early word on Bouch is lower body and day2day.

 

[oilers4life5]

Any word on Bouchard?

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Let's hope so. Ideally it was just bumps and bruises and Hartman gets treated like a lawn dart the next time that we play them.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Let's hope so. Ideally it was just bumps and bruises and Hartman gets treated like a lawn dart the next time that we play them.

I wish Kane was next to Bouch and not Ekholm. Kane would have pounded Hartman

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Looking forward to jaded’s guess of a career ending injury so we can all breathe a sigh of relief

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Looking forward to jaded’s guess of a career ending injury so we can all breathe a sigh of relief

Haha I’m just waiting for the HFOil doctor to comment.

 

[TheNumber4]

Confirmed LBI for Bouch?

Maybe my online doctorate wasn't a scam.

 

[Stoneman89]

Hartman has been a complete douchebag ever since he came into the league with the Hawks. No question he tried to injure Bouch with that cheapshot hit, and unbelievable that no call was made. Anyone could clearly see he tried to push him into the post. He's done a ton of shit just like that before, and I hope when we play them again, Kane in in our lineup and tunes him in. Either that or bring up Brown to do the dirty work.

 

[Fourier]

Hartman has been a complete douchebag ever since he came into the league with the Hawks. No question he tried to injure Bouch with that cheapshot hit, and unbelievable that no call was made. Anyone could clearly see he tried to push him into the post. He's done a ton of shit just like that before, and I hope when we play them again, Kane in in our lineup and tunes him in. Either that or bring up Brown to do the dirty work.

I must say that this drives home the point that the NHL is a very different league than it was in the old days. Had Hartman done that to say Coffey in the 80's late in a blow-out there would have been a beatdown of epic proportions. In the 2024 NHL player like Hartman are protected at the expense of the stars. Frankly, I will never understand why this is the case. It is actually bad business.

 

[Tarus]

I must say that this drives home the point that the NHL is a very different league than it was in the old days. Had Hartman done that to say Coffey in the 80's late in a blow-out there would have been a beatdown of epic proportions. In the 2024 NHL player like Hartman are protected at the expense of the stars. Frankly, I will never understand why this is the case. It is actually bad business.

That's looking at the past with rose colored glasses. The NHL of the 80s/90s was as case study of ever escalating violence, frequent bench clearing brawls, players who specialized in intentionally injuring opponents, and outright assaults on the ice.

NHL isn't perfect(or even really good) on enforcing the player safety stuff, but clamping down on the brawling is one of the few forward thinking things they did when Bettman took over. If they hadn't done it at the time, they would have been forced to deal with it in the future as the era of 24/7 media and sports media networks highlighted and sensationalized every violent outburst and dangerous injury that would have resulted if the league tried to stay the course.