Tage Thompson doesn't impress so far

All the assets in the world with an already great team and refused to pony up for a Vezina winner

Not cursed

Just stupid
 
That did NOT look good...



It's hard to believe such a BIG man could get hurt that easily but... maybe that's why he got hurt.
 
That did NOT look good...



It's hard to believe such a BIG man could get hurt that easily but... maybe that's why he got hurt.


This looks like an absolutely nothing play that happens a dozen times each game. Seems like really bad luck that he must have landed in the worse way possible on that type of a play.
 
This looks like an absolutely nothing play that happens a dozen times each game. Seems like really bad luck that he must have landed in the worse way possible on that type of a play.
^^ Yup. ^^

Being BIG isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes BIG guys are even more fragile / injury prone.

As someone (me) who is older, it's the BIG men who fall apart more quickly.
 
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^^ Yup. ^^

Being BIG isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes BIG guys are even more fragile / injury prone.

As someone (me) who is older, it's the BIG men who fall apart more quickly.
It has a lot to do with more weight on their joints.

If you double the height, the strength needs to be quadrupled to retain the same sturdiness. It's physics.
 
That did NOT look good...



It's hard to believe such a BIG man could get hurt that easily but... maybe that's why he got hurt.

How did NHL.com make this an upper-body injury? Too me it looks like a MCL tear or a dislocated kneecap. If it would be the ACL his season would be over.
 
This looks like an absolutely nothing play that happens a dozen times each game. Seems like really bad luck that he must have landed in the worse way possible on that type of a play.
Looked like the defender’s skate went across his foot/ankle.
 
How did NHL.com make this an upper-body injury? Too me it looks like a MCL tear or a dislocated kneecap. If it would be the ACL his season would be over.

Because he came back into the game after this and then took a slapshot off the hand and didn’t comeback.

Looked like the defender’s skate went across his foot/ankle.

He came back into the game after this.

He then took a shot off the hand and left again but didn’t come back.
 
I suspect that's the play that will have Tage out for a while. If the cut or whatever it was in the first period was debilitating, he wouldn't have returned.
It doesn’t take much to injure that part of the body. I hope he’s not out too long. The game is so much better with him in it and not on the sidelines

Ok, so 1-2 months then.
If it is his hand then 2 months is bare minimum depending on the issue.
 
It has a lot to do with more weight on their joints.

If you double the height, the strength needs to be quadrupled to retain the same sturdiness. It's physics.
Yup. Like I said elsewhere, when you get older, the first people whose bodies start breaking down, are your bigger friends. Joints are, like you said, a sore spot - no pun intended.

How did NHL.com make this an upper-body injury? Too me it looks like a MCL tear or a dislocated kneecap. If it would be the ACL his season would be over.
Ouch! That's a brutal diagnosis. For his sake, I hope you are wrong.
 
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Yup. Like I said elsewhere, when you get older, the first people whose bodies start breaking down, are your bigger friends. Joints are, like you said, a sore spot - no pun intended.


Ouch! That's a brutal diagnosis. For his sake, I hope you are wrong.
He probably broke his wrist on that shot from McAvoy.I was figuring finger or something then read it hit wrist so if it's LTIR it's probably broke fractured etc.
 
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He probably broke his wrist on that shot from McAvoy.I was figuring finger or something then read it hit wrist so if it's LTIR it's probably broke fractured etc.
He was hobbling off so it was his knee/leg.
 
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Looked like the defender’s skate went across his foot/ankle.

that had no role in the play though. was his right knee he wasn't putting weight one and skate clipped his left foot, which occurred after he'd already made his cut. he's already going down by the time the contact happens and it doesn't have any effect how he goes to the ice.

sounds like it was a shot block anyway. sometimes you just tweak a knee. besides, no way that woulda been more than 6 weeks or so, not the kinda non-contact play you tear an acl. those happen from explosive movements pushing off of the ground/ice
 

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