Player Discussion Kaapo Kakko

[PuckLuck3043]

Injury didn’t look that bad to me. Looked more like a hyperextension than a multiple ligament tear. He was in a lot of pain though and was putting no weight on it at all so I very well could be wrong.

Sucks all around though. This kid can’t afford to lose any mobility.

Disagree. It looked bad. It looked like something popped. It's very likely we don't see him for a long time.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

The only plus from this is that through the process of healing nyr will be able to send him to the AHL for a stint prior to playing in the NHL again without a bunch of crazy negative attention. This kid would get a chance to build some offensive confidence without the scrutiny. Sucks for him though in general but might be a career reset for him.

Thats actually a good point - but would the actually do that and send him down? Might be the sliver lining to it all...

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

Disagree. It looked bad. It looked like something popped. It's very likely we don't see him for a long time.

Immediate thought was ACL, just from having seen a bunch of those in my lifetime. Hope I'm wrong though. Very difficult injury to come back from fully. Usually results in some diminishment of play and even if everything goes perfectly takes close to a year to get back to where you want to be even though time back on ice is less than that when all goes well.

 

[will1066]

Thats actually a good point - but would the actually do that and send him down? Might be the sliver lining to it all...

Do it under the guise of a rehab assignment.

Not that I want him to be hurt, but if he is out for an extended time, even rest of season, these 20 games will be considered a wash. People are going to remember his season got cut short by injury and hardly anyone will remember the 20 games but rather 60 games he didn't play.

He was overpowered a lot before the injury, learn from it. Rebuild, rehab, work on building strength in the areas that weren't strong enough, try again in 23-24 on a bridge contract.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Do it under the guise of a rehab assignment.

Not that I want him to be hurt, but if he is out for an extended time, even rest of season, these 20 games will be considered a wash. He was overpowered a lot before the injury, learn from it. Rebuild, rehab, work on building strength in the areas that weren't strong enough, try again in 23-24 on a bridge contract.

Yeah, they did it with Blais and if the injury is anything similar it wont be under the guise, it will be necessary.

Immediate thought was ACL, just from having seen a bunch of those in my lifetime. Hope I'm wrong though. Very difficult injury to come back from fully. Usually results in some diminishment of play and even if everything goes perfectly takes close to a year to get back to where you want to be even though time back on ice is less than that when all goes well.

Correct me if im wrong, but wasnt Kakko holding his knee when he was on the ice in pain? My initial though was knee or broken fib. Thats the injury Mika had when he slid into the boards and he was out 6-8 weeks

 

[EdJovanovski]

When I tore my ACL I played the remainder of that game, stopped for a month or so and doctors said I was fine; so started playing on it for over a year while waiting to see a specialist and get referred for an MRI, and only then found out it was torn.

I don’t think you can judge all that much from how the guy looks at the time of injury, there’s injuries where they look brutal and the guys back the next game and there’s injuries that look like nothing and next thing you know the guys out for the rest of the season

 

[nyr2k2]

Maybe it's because I was watching on my phone instead of the big screen, but it almost looked like his knee popped to me. Which really tells you nothing about the severity of it; it just looks bad and is painful. But you wouldn't know about the internal structures until later, I guess.

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

Yeah, they did it with Blais and if the injury is anything similar it wont be under the guise, it will be necessary.


Correct me if im wrong, but wasnt Kakko holding his knee when he was on the ice in pain? My initial though was knee or broken fib. Thats the injury Mika had when he slid into the boards and he was out 6-8 weeks

I don't understand the question...ACL is knee. Falling with your leg under you the wrong way like that puts a lot of lateral stress on the knee in a way the joint is not meant to move and usually results in a tear unless somehow the leg is able to evacuate through sheer force before the ligaments tear. Unfortunately, skate edge plus ice makes that uncommon when a players gets twisted and goes down the way Kakko did. Not being able to put any weight is a bad sign. Guess we'll just wait for any official announcement of the length of time for the "lower body injury" but it looked bad.

I just hope whatever the injury ends up being that he's pissed and, after rehab, comes back wanting to knock the league around a bit.

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

Also, side note, Kane to the Red Wings. Thank God, so we can put that rumor to rest and not butcher the PP again.

 

[will1066]

Also, side note, Kane to the Red Wings. Thank God, so we can put that rumor to rest and not butcher the PP again.

Just in time to torch us for 2 goals, 2 assists this Wednesday on national television LMAO.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

I don't understand the question...ACL is knee.

Was just asking if everyone else saw him holding his knee when he was down

 

[LokiDog]

Chytil facing possible consideration for his future due to concussion concerns (quasi-sarcastic).

Kakko tearing his knee to ribbons when he’s already a slow and tentative player (sarcastic).

Lafreniere better watch out.

We’re witnessing The Fall of the House or Sather.

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

 

[Cuckoo4Kakko]

Amazingly lucky. For all the crap he gets on these boards, we will miss not worrying about the other team scoring. He is solid on d, and for the role he has been given on line 3, that's important.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Not the knee, probably the ankle.


I am a better HFDoc than the actual HFDocs.

 

[bl02]

Good news. Thank goodness it wasn't a patella or acl with collateral damage to the rest of the knee.

 

[LokiDog]

Good news. Thank goodness it wasn't a patella or acl with collateral damage to the rest of the knee.

Yes, now if they can just sneak a “doctor prescribed” long running regiment of exogenous testosterone with a little bit of trenbolone as part of his “recovery” he might grow a spine while his knee heels.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Glad to see it's not anything season ending.

 

[NYR Viper]

This is very good news. Let him take his time and when he comes back he can get some time in the AHL as a way to ramp up

 

[LeetchisGod]

Looking at the bright side, perhaps focusing on injury rehab allows Kakko to get out of his own head for awhile.

 

[bhamill]

When I tore my ACL I played the remainder of that game, stopped for a month or so and doctors said I was fine; so started playing on it for over a year while waiting to see a specialist and get referred for an MRI, and only then found out it was torn.

I don’t think you can judge all that much from how the guy looks at the time of injury, there’s injuries where they look brutal and the guys back the next game and there’s injuries that look like nothing and next thing you know the guys out for the rest of the season

Yeah I remember when Reaves got Slewbanned. Looked bad, was in a lot of pain, wasn't that serious.
Blais tore the both ACL and MCL badly and it took him a year plus, but he doesn't seem to have lasting effects from it. I think it's highly variable.

 

[LionsHeart]

Looking at the bright side, perhaps focusing on injury rehab allows Kakko to get out of his own head for awhile.

I was about to say the same exact thing. Get away from the game, heal up, come back and kill it.

 

[hardnosed]

I guess it's good news on Kakko. Curious to know what the injury is.

 

[romba]

For a guy who's strength was board play he sure was overpowered and shrugged off the puck easily along the boards. Even after being dropped in the lineup and facing weaker D. Hopefully he can rest up and then rehab back to full strength or even more. Then maybe stick around locally and work out with CK in the off season?