Injury Report: Jake Gardiner, LTIR, Back and Hip Surgery

[Sigurd]

Hey guys, I found video footage of Jake Gardiner from this week:

 

[LakeLivin]

Jake Gardiner, hockey player, a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic defenseman. Jake Gardiner will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

(start at 2:03)



edit: for the record, I'd be surprised to see him in a Canes jersey next season

 

[Chainshot]

Already starting to happen in the NBA for me. "Wait, no that can't be the same guy he came in a couple years after I graduated... Damnit it is him".

Gets worse when you are watching guys thinking "didn't I see him before" and realize it's a dude's father that you have memories of.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Jake Gardiner, hockey player, a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic defenseman. Jake Gardiner will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.

(start at 2:03)

Probably will end up looking more like this:

 

[AD Skinner]

Gets worse when you are watching guys thinking "didn't I see him before" and realize it's a dude's father that you have memories of.

I feel like this all the time with the nhl: Drury, Domi, Kapanen, Tkachuk, Bertuzzi, Stillman... just off the top of my head I'm sure there's more

 

[Chainshot]

I feel like this all the time with the nhl: Drury, Domi, Kapanen, Tkachuk, Bertuzzi, Stillman... just off the top of my head I'm sure there's more

Pffft, watching Lorenz for the Canes and thinking... "I watched your GRANDFATHER!"

 

[DaveG]

Gets worse when you are watching guys thinking "didn't I see him before" and realize it's a dude's father that you have memories of.

yeah there's seemingly about 8-10 kids on the football team where I went for undergrad that have me going "OK I had English 102 with this guy's dad, Comm 200, ... I think this guy's dad was Poly Sci, and these others I just drank with"

 

[The Faulker 27]

So he's not ded?

 

[Chrispy]

So he's not ded?

He just spent the season pining for the fjords.

 

[Sigurd]

So he's not ded?

Gardiner:

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Gardiner:

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But he did end up dead

 

[Sigurd]

But he did end up dead

Thus the previous gif with the undertaker. He's back from the dead even after we all thought he was gone.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Thus the previous gif with the undertaker. He's back from the dead even after we all thought he was gone.

I mean that guy from Dexter did end up dead in the show

 

[whiskers]

For him coming back does this hurts us more with cap space?

 

[bleedgreen]

To bring it back to the relevant topic of being old, I’m training someone at work who told me I reffed some of his games when he was 12…..

He’s 28 with a wife, kids and a house.

 

[AD Skinner]

Only tangentially related but that reminds me of a time I was at a stick and puck and the only other person out there was this kid who was probably 10 or 11. He had one half of the ice and I had one half and we didn't really interact but it was obvious he was good- just dipsy doodling all over the place, going bar down every time he shot, stopping on a dime, the whole thing. I took a water break and was standing by the bench where my bottle was just thinking like "damn I'm so old and slow" and he skated over and asked if I could open his Gatorade for him, the lid was too tight.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

For him coming back does this hurts us more with cap space?

Oh I think this is a bad thing. Very bad.

 

[Discipline Daddy]

Legit curious if Gardiner can be a JM Liles for us next year or if his body completely falls apart and he Wisniewskis himself after one shift. Kind of a huge deal as it's $4M in cap, and the difference between him being a PP 2nd unit QB and an anchor can mean the difference between us winning the Metro or not.