Injury Report: 2021/22 Injury Thread Part 3

[AvsWraith]

That is a true warrior. We must re-sign him.

 

[avs1dacup]

I see why he was carted off after the win. Woah.

Injuries happen and lots of people play through them. Hard to ever blame an injury when we had Cogs, Kadri and Nuke playing with broken bones.

And Burky that didn't play but probably would have game 7. Has there ever been this many players on one team breaking this many bones in one playoff?

 

[Barklez]

Soooo how many of the UFAs can we sign, send to surgery/lengthy recovery, and keep for another year?

 

[Markster]

I see why he was carted off after the win. Woah.

Injuries happen and lots of people play through them. Hard to ever blame an injury when we had Cogs, Kadri and Nuke playing with broken bones.

Add Bura and Girard's sternum and that makes 5 guys (that we know of) with broken bones in 20 games worth of playoffs. Plus Landy, Rants and Toews all clearly dealing with injuries and Kuemper getting a stick in the eye.

Playoff hockey really is a battle of attrition and survival. My hat was already off to these guys so I will add a bow. Freaking WARRIORS.

 

[avs1dacup]

I see why he was carted off after the win. Woah.

Injuries happen and lots of people play through them. Hard to ever blame an injury when we had Cogs, Kadri and Nuke playing with broken bones.

And Burky that didn't play but probably would have game 7. Has there ever been this many players on one team breaking this many bones in one playoff?

 

[Markster]

That is a true warrior. We must re-sign him.

Valeri, any scratch-and-dent discount for Joe?

 

[Foppa2118]

No wonder he was limping. What a beast.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Yup that's broken what a warrior

Meh he is damage goods now...let him walk.

Seriously though...not only did he play but he played 23 mins.

 

[jimmysheva]

Maybe players need better equipment to prevent bones breaking?

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Maybe players need better equipment to prevent bones breaking?

FIRE THE TRAINERS IF THEY CAN'T KEEP GUYS FROM GETTING BROKEN BONES AND CONCUSSIONS!

 

[CharlesPuck]

Lol!

Bednar just confirms that Darcey couldn’t see. Said looking down he couldn’t track pucks at his feet.

I mean it was obvious but so funny to hear Bednar confirm it.

Bednar is listing all the injuries on Altitude radio. There’s so many we didn’t know about. But didn’t hear it as an excuse.

 

[Vaslof]

Lol!

Bednar just confirms that Darcey couldn’t see. Said looking down he couldn’t track pucks at his feet.

I mean it was obvious but so funny to hear Bednar confirm it.

No f***ing way he let Kuemper play if that's true.

 

[CharlesPuck]

No f***ing way he let Kuemper play if that's true.

It’s true.

He pulled him when it was super bad. Went to an eye doctor several times to work on it.

 

[The Shermanator]

We won with a blind goalie. That's a historic achievement.

 

[pont]

If that is true about Kuemper, that could be career threatening. It sure explains why he was so weak on the low shots.

 

[CharlesPuck]

If that is true about Kuemper, that could be career threatening. It sure explains why he was so weak on the low shots.

Bednar said they found the issue but he had to lots of eye exercises to reduce the problem. No idea if it’s 100% now or just good enough.

 

[Richard88]

If that is true about Kuemper, that could be career threatening. It sure explains why he was so weak on the low shots.

Yeah looking back a lot of the weak goals he let in were low... Including the Cirelli 1-1 goal, the Maroon 5-2 goal, the Palat game 5 winner, etc.

 

[CharlesPuck]

Yeah looking back a lot of the weak goals he let in were low... Including the Cirelli 1-1 goal, the Maroon 5-2 goal, the Palat game 5 winner, etc.

It was pretty obvious he couldn’t track or see pucks down low.

The Edmonton goals in Game 1…. He just couldn’t see anything there.

 

[The Shermanator]

Hard to not give Kuemper a pass after hearing that. But it's still weird that he played the whole St Louis series before pulling himself. Did it get worse?

 

[Richard88]

Hard to not give Kuemper a pass after hearing that. But it's still weird that he played the whole St Louis series before pulling himself. Did it get worse?

Yeah I'd say this changes the outlook a bit, and assuming the injury isn't going to be a long-term problem it probably increases the likelihood of the Avs re-signing him.

Gotta wonder what this information will do to his value as an UFA though if he goes that way. Teams might be a bit wary of handing out a big deal to him if there are doubts about whether he'll be able to see properly going forward.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Hard to not give Kuemper a pass after hearing that. But it's still weird that he played the whole St Louis series before pulling himself. Did it get worse?

Wasn't it reported that he was having some issues having taking that shot off the helmet?

 

[The Shermanator]

Wasn't it reported that he was having some issues having taking that shot off the helmet?

I think that was all speculation but yeah I can see how taking headshots could potentially make an existing eye injury worse.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Gonna be interesting to see that list of injuries

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[HockeyFan100]

We beat Vasi and the Bolts with a cyclops in net. What a team!