Injury Report: Vol. II (Updates in First Post) | Fleury, Bortuzzo + Määttä Being Tested for Mumps

[Pancakes]

It's almost comforting to know he's been fighting a sickness or whatever this is because he's been playing completely terrible hockey and I've been hoping there is an explanation other than just that he doesn't have it this year.

Hopefully this is just a few day thing and he can come back recharged and ready to dominate on Monday.

 

[cassius]

Saw how Johnson said that basically the team has mumps vaccines and whatnot...

Well guess what. That doesn't really matter. I read an article that basically said how the mumps virus can actually overpower the vaccine. So basically you can still get mumps even if you have your shots and whatnot.

It certainly looks like mumps to me.

 

[Winger for Hire]

35 points in 27 games with 1/2 of them with scrubs on the wings... yup, the man just doesn't have it this year. Might as well call the glue factory.

 

[MeticulouslyDishevel]

Sadly... he/she did mention they were tested before. Hilarious that it came back up. Now I don't trust our medical staff at all. And Pittsburgh is freaking KNOWN for medicine!

I mean if you told a person in a coma that loved the NHL for years what injuries we have, they would think you are insane.

I think the blood tests your source mentioned were probably to test for the presence of antibodies to see of anyone needed a vaccine booster. At least I hope so. (I'm trying to redeem UPMC here because it seems like the team is stuck with them as a medical provider, being a team sponsor and all).

 

[DegenX]

What are the chances that they are doing this because of the social media backlash?

My inner cynic would say the odds are good. If he had mumps, he would have tested positive and they would have sent him into quarantine rather than cleared him to play. It could also have come down from much higher up the food chain once everyone saw Sid's media scrum footage. Mumps is a hot topic for the NHL right now ... the league may have said to sit him until the swelling goes down no matter what the test results were.

 

[ProgOg]

My inner cynic would say the odds are good. If he had mumps, he would have tested positive and they would have sent him into quarantine rather than cleared him to play. It could also have come down from much higher up the food chain once everyone saw Sid's media scrum footage. Mumps is a hot topic for the NHL right now ... the league may have said to sit him until the swelling goes down no matter what the test results were.

That is what I'm thinking, too. The reaction was so strong, and mostly pretty negative - so I'm not surprised if the Penguins decided to try and save face.

 

[Pancakes]

35 points in 27 games with 1/2 of them with scrubs on the wings... yup, the man just doesn't have it this year. Might as well call the glue factory.

Perhaps this year was hyperbolic...but 0 points in 8 out of his last 15 or whatever. Something is/was clearly wrong. The wingers he has are boat anchors but he usually puts up points regardless.

If he's been fighting something the past few weeks, that explains a lot.

 

[mikethelegacy]

With the whole mumps situation with the NHL, you'd think unless they absolutely definitely 100% know what else it is, they's err on the side of caution. Right? RIGHT?

Oh I agree. Crosby is probably pissed though. He seemed pretty hell-bent on playing tonight during the interview. You have to wonder if someone in league management actually saw the photo and maybe cautioned the team not to play him, just in case it is mumps and they don't want it spreading. You never know, he could just be hiding acorns in there.

 

[Winger for Hire]

I think Deadspin nailed it...

Unless Crosby is hoarding food in his cheek pouches for winter, or lost a bet and has to do today's interviews with a softball in his mouth, or that's not actually Sidney Crosby but some weird Crosby-Kessel genetic hybrid horror bred to wreck the NHL's ****, something is seriously wrong with Sidney Crosby's face and glands.

Also, the link has a pic of Adam Larsson, mumps victim, and his cheeks look eerily similar to Sid.

 

[ProgOg]

Here is the (long) list of possible reasons behind a swollen face.

 

[Malkin112*]

couple of mumps pics.

 

[cheesedanish87]

I hope is is the mumps, it seems like players are coming back from the mumps in a pretty reasonable amount of time.

If its something else you don't know how long he could be out for.

 

[billybudd]

I think Deadspin nailed it...



Also, the link has a pic of Adam Larsson, mumps victim, and his cheeks look eerily similar to Sid.

Just to play Devil's Advocate, my throat/cheek once swelled up like that supposedly on account of a bacterial infection from the Atlantic Ocean. I was sick for almost a month.

Then again, the doctor who diagnosed me was a guy I knew who spent most of his time piss drunk at the race-track, so maybe I actually had mumps, too.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Well with the track record of this franchise it's probably terminal.

 

[TorstenFrings]

Here is the (long) list of possible reasons behind a swollen face.

I mean, sure, there are several reasons for it, but are there any good ones?

And by good I do not mean hilariously bad, but actual positive ones.

 

[IcedCapp]

I mean, sure, there are several reasons for it, but are there any good ones?

And by good I do not mean hilariously bad, but actual positive ones.

there is never a positive reason for having your face swell up like a balloon

 

[ProgOg]

I mean, sure, there are several reasons for it, but are there any good ones?

And by good I do not mean hilariously bad, but actual positive ones.

Sinus infection, I guess? The tooth thing is unlikely, or the Penguins would have said something.

Seriously, based on what I heard about mumps is that it's painful as ****, so I would be pretty surprised of he really had it based on him showing up to practices. But I never had it, so who knows.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

 

[MeticulouslyDishevel]

My inner cynic would say the odds are good. If he had mumps, he would have tested positive and they would have sent him into quarantine rather than cleared him to play. It could also have come down from much higher up the food chain once everyone saw Sid's media scrum footage. Mumps is a hot topic for the NHL right now ... the league may have said to sit him until the swelling goes down no matter what the test results were.

If I was Brian Burke there would be no way I'd send my team out against a guy who looks like he's infected. I would be talking to the league to get some type of medical reassurance that he wasn't infected.

 

[KIRK]

there is never a positive reason for having your face swell up like a balloon

But, but, but . . . your head swells all the time.

 

[Jacob]

So did he test positive or negative for mumps? Or did they just guess that it wasn't mumps somehow?

If I'm the NHL, I probably tell the Penguins to get a confirming diagnosis (and fax it to HQ) or hold him out until he's asymptomatic.

Lots of things can cause facial swelling, but it's extremely odd that it would happen to occur during a mumps outbreak across the league. I mean, that's gotta be the first thing the doctors would've suspected and tested for a week ago when even *we* noticed his neck was swollen, I just want to know how our Gong Show medical staff handled the situation.

 

[Fordy]

So did he test positive or negative for mumps? Or did they just guess that it wasn't mumps somehow?

If I'm the NHL, I probably tell the Penguins to get a confirming diagnosis (and fax it to HQ) or hold him out until he's asymptomatic.

Lots of things can cause facial swelling, but it's extremely odd that it would happen to occur during a mumps outbreak across the league. I mean, he's obviously got the mumps, I just want to know how our Gong Show medical staff handled the situation.

they've denied mumps every time

 

[KIRK]

Is that your 'summer look', Burkie . . . let the hard grow out even more, add a beard?

EDIT: All seriousness, calling this injury situation 'beyond ********* up' just seems like the understatement of the decade.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Is that your 'summer look', Burkie . . . let the hard grow out even more, add a beard?

EDIT: All seriousness, calling this injury situation 'beyond ********* up' just seems like the understatement of the decade.

I couldn't even bring myself to use another Homer At The Bat reference. Cuts too close to the bone.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

they've denied mumps every time

So it's mumps and something went wrong with the testing?

I really hope this isn't something that makes us all wish it was mumps.