Injury Report: Tuevo Teravainen out for playoffs with broken hand - (UPDATE - return set for Game 1 of ECF)

[Svechhammer]

A typical broken bone, yes.

A broken bone in the hand for a professional athlete using his hands (not a football lineman)? That's a trickier recovery to full performance.

A broken bone in the hand that required pins? I'm stunned TT is even skating without a non-contact jersey already.

Honestly it really depends on what the break was. Supposedly this one particular break has a very quick recovery timeframe, which I heard about last week when I was initially given a heads up that he legitimately could be back this round.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Let's hope TT coming back is addition by addition.

 

[toastmasterbone]

Thankfully, Florida isn't a team that takes questionable liberties.

 

[MinJaBen]

Thankfully, Florida isn't a team that takes questionable liberties.

Yeah, there is little question when they do take liberties. Usually very obvious.

 

[Sigurd]

Guess he's not out for the playoffs. Who could have seen that coming?

 

[CandyCanes]

Exciting turn of events. I'd probably like to roll with the roster that played extremely well against the Devils. But as soon as we lose a game, maybe have him slide in to create a new spark. Gives TT a bit more healing time and lets the team that just beat the Devils in 5 games to keep going.

Even with TT struggling this year, he's a good player. Always defensively responsible and still positively impacts the game just about each and every night. So he will be a welcome addition back.

 

[PredsV82]

A typical broken bone, yes.

A broken bone in the hand for a professional athlete using his hands (not a football lineman)? That's a trickier recovery to full performance.

A broken bone in the hand that required pins? I'm stunned TT is even skating without a non-contact jersey already.

Just sitting here discussing it with my ortho colleague. He says if it's one of the three middle bones (which with a slash makes sense,) then the fracture has natural splints on either side, and the plates and screws are now designed to provide very tight fixation such that they can have early mobilization. Plus, presumably money is no object so I'm sure he got bone stimulator treatment and if there are any new wonderdrugs to speed healing I'm sure he got those too.

By game 1 he will be 4 weeks out from surgery so the soft tissue will be healed.

Plus unlike a knee or Achilles, if this repair fails, he just has surgery again and should still be fully recovered by the fall.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Honestly, I'd sit him until we need a shake up. We eliminated the Devils in 5 with the roster we had. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it

 

[Lempo]

Just sitting here discussing it with my ortho colleague. He says if it's one of the three middle bones (which with a slash makes sense,) then the fracture has natural splints on either side, and the plates and screws are now designed to provide very tight fixation such that they can have early mobilization. Plus, presumably money is no object so I'm sure he got bone stimulator treatment and if there are any new wonderdrugs to speed healing I'm sure he got those too.

By game 1 he will be 4 weeks out from surgery so the soft tissue will be healed.

Plus unlike a knee or Achilles, if this repair fails, he just has surgery again and should still be fully recovered by the fall.

Can I show you guys my spirometry results from today, I don't want to wait a week for my phone reception.

 

[Svechhammer]

Honestly, I'd sit him until we need a shake up. We eliminated the Devils in 5 with the roster we had. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it

But Turbo was broke and we fixed it

 

[raynman]

But Turbo was broke and we fixed it

Hopefully with a bigger turbo, intercooler upgrade, a tune, and a heavy duty clutch

 

[LakeLivin]

A typical broken bone, yes.

A broken bone in the hand for a professional athlete using his hands (not a football lineman)? That's a trickier recovery to full performance.

A broken bone in the hand that required pins? I'm stunned TT is even skating without a non-contact jersey already.

Did they specifically say it required pins though? I just read "surgery"; I bet they went with something like this:

 

[MinJaBen]

Honestly, I'd sit him until we need a shake up. We eliminated the Devils in 5 with the roster we had. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it

I mean, the whole post was about how the break has already healed. To fix it now, would be pointless.

Common man...

Hopefully with a bigger turbo, intercooler upgrade, a tune, and a heavy duty clutch

Probably went with a cheap Ebay turbo kit. Same ol' Dundon....

 

[PredsV82]

Can I show you guys my spirometry results from today, I don't want to wait a week for my phone reception.

You're asking a booger picker and a bone doc about your lung function????

 

[Lempo]

Probably went with a cheap Ebay turbo kit. Same ol' Dundon...

As long as it makes the bo-jo-jo-joing sound...

 

[Lempo]

You're asking a booger picker and a bone doc about your lung function????

Well. Actually the doc would've wanted me Holter monitored, but my employer's contract doesn't pay for it, so we're pretty much just blowing air to excuse her sending me to the public. In the circumstances, consulting some guys on a hockey board seemed appropriate.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Hopefully with a bigger turbo, intercooler upgrade, a tune, and a heavy duty clutch

And new bionic arms and hands programmed to mimic McDavid's.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Plus, presumably money is no object

Lest you forget that cheapo dundon owns the team... turbo miraculously treated with snake oil

 

[tarheelhockey]

Not gonna lie, I have mixed feelings about this. Turbo wasn't very good this season and now he's coming back with a maimed hand.

On the other hand, we are scraping by without top-6 talent but that can only get us so far.

I'm inclined to agree with BB above... I would keep him on the sidelines to rest up that hand until we hit a wall and look like we need a shakeup.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Play him on the 4th line. Neither Stastny nor Stepan, a proxy for it, were on the ice for a 5v5 GF against NJ (3 GA in total on the other end).

 

[The Faulker 27]

Lest you forget that cheapo dundon owns the team... turbo miraculously treated with snake oil

My mother would probably prescribe some type of essential oil and some ElderBerry. Also thoughts and prayers.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

I don't see any on-ice downside at all to slotting turbo in for mac/PP if he's fully healthy. I wouldn't immediately put him with Aho or give him big minutes over guys like Marty and Fast who have been hot lately though.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

 

[cptjeff]

Not Rod, Precision Diagnostics-R-Us, that's for sure.

Our coach has many good qualities. Medical science is not one of them.

 

[cptjeff]

I don't see any on-ice downside at all to slotting turbo in for mac/PP if he's fully healthy. I wouldn't immediately put him with Aho or give him big minutes over guys like Marty and Fast who have been hot lately though.

Agreed. Throw him in over PP, it's a no downside move.