Injury Report: Bruins Injury Thread II
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talkinaway
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Y'know, I was thinking to myself this morning...players usually don't schedule their doctor's appointments at the same time as a practice....
Bruins Issue Update On Charlie McAvoy
Some stuff from WebMD if you want to read about SVT (supraventricular tachycardia):
Supraventricular Tachycardia-Topic Overview
Basically, it's an overactive electrical connection in your heart - sort of like a short circuit, but it generally corrects itself after awhile. You feel palpitations, which is what he had back after the November 26 Oilers game. It might recur, or it might not...and it's generally confirmed via EKG. He's having a cardiac ablation, which is basically burning a tiny bit of your heart muscle that contains the faulty wiring. More info on that:
SVT ablation - Type - Mayo Clinic
He's expected to be out two weeks, and I imagine that's a fairly hard-and-fast minimum. It's not like an ankle where the timeline is flexible. The timing tells me the procedure wasn't emergent at all, and the fact that he's having it done after McQuaid coming back, AND during the brief ASG break, is probably not coincidental at all. Even if he'd had the procedure done during the bye week earlier this month, 2 weeks out would still take about 5 games.
Bruins Issue Update On Charlie McAvoy
Some stuff from WebMD if you want to read about SVT (supraventricular tachycardia):
Supraventricular Tachycardia-Topic Overview
Basically, it's an overactive electrical connection in your heart - sort of like a short circuit, but it generally corrects itself after awhile. You feel palpitations, which is what he had back after the November 26 Oilers game. It might recur, or it might not...and it's generally confirmed via EKG. He's having a cardiac ablation, which is basically burning a tiny bit of your heart muscle that contains the faulty wiring. More info on that:
SVT ablation - Type - Mayo Clinic
He's expected to be out two weeks, and I imagine that's a fairly hard-and-fast minimum. It's not like an ankle where the timeline is flexible. The timing tells me the procedure wasn't emergent at all, and the fact that he's having it done after McQuaid coming back, AND during the brief ASG break, is probably not coincidental at all. Even if he'd had the procedure done during the bye week earlier this month, 2 weeks out would still take about 5 games.
whatsbruin
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Don't understand why this wasn't done during the week they had off.
Oh well. Gives him a break, and keeps McQuaid in for some playing time.
Okay, that was insensitive.
Health is number 1 priority.
Get well Charlie.
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talkinaway
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Let's see if there's a period where he could be off 5 games for longer than 2 weeks, with the ablation happening on a non-holiday weekday.
11/27-12/12 contains five games, and is 2 weeks and 1 day. But it would require lightning fast decision making and scheduling - his first symptoms were supposedly 11/26. I don't think you go from "my heart's beating fast" to "let's burn the heart" in 12 hours, and getting the right doctor to do the ablation...plus, you have to stop eating the morning of the procedure. So, you'd lose at the very least one day on the front end, to make it 11/28-12/12 for 2 weeks.
11/30-12/13 contains five games, and is one day shorter.
12/5-12/17 contains five games, and is also one day under 2 weeks.
The rest of December is pretty packed.
12/26-1/5 would have had five games scheduled with the PPD game that we didn't know about. Still under 2 weeks.
12/29-1/12 would have five games and the bye week, and is exactly 2 weeks. But I wouldn't exactly want an elective heart procedure on the last Friday of the year.
1/3-1/16 would have five games, but is just a smidge under 2 weeks.
1/8-1/22 would be five games and exactly 2 weeks.
1/16-1/29 is five games and just under 2 weeks.
1/19-2/2 i five games and exactly 2 weeks.
Our current window is 1/22-2/5. He does come back on a B2B roadtrip, assuming he's healthy in exactly 2 weeks, and if not his missed games jump from 5 to 7. My guess is they didn't do him earlier because they wanted to make sure McQuaid was ready.
Wiggleboom
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The physician’s schedule matters too of course. He/she is not a full-time employee of the Bruins.
Olden McGroin
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Thanks. Guess I could have checked the Bruins’ feed!
Charlie McAvoy, his doctor & Don Sweeney discuss Charlie's illness/injury
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BruinsFanMike82
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Backes *is* practicing with the team this morning.
That is great news, knowing the NHL they will use that as an excuse as to why Ritchie won't get a suspension.
The NHL didn't even LOOK at that hit ??? If that were Brad ....
BruinsFanMike82
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Pastrnak got suspended without injuring Girardi. Suspension or no suspension, I'm glad Backes is ok though.
Or better yet...any player with a spoked B on their sweater...
That's very unexpected, considering how he looked last night. Looked like he "got his bell rung" pretty good. As long as he passed the protocol...
Tough cookie.
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