How exactly did you reach that conclusion from 20 seconds of nothing burger footage?
It wouldn't surprise me if he's out another game or two. But being certain of it from that video is like guaranteeing the career of an NFL prospect just based on the combine.
Just throwing it out there,
I did have an argument on twitter last year about pacioretty with an actual devils reporter lol. There was literally 7 seconds of video and it was his first team skate after achillies surgery+rehab. The way he was making his turns, it was just so obvious that his foot was completely not healed at all and they were rushing him or he was rushing himself. So I just said looks like he has another month or something because that edge-work is terrible. He said that I know nothing because he hasn't been skating for months and that's why he looked (in my words not his) like an elephant trying to skate for the first time.
Long story short, I went back and forth a lot (like 7 responses each) with this guy and i think he just wanted to unload on someone for "not knowing hockey" or something. Turns out, 2 days later, they put him back on the IR because of his foot. The guy then blocked me when I said, sucks when you don't know edge work in hockey huh?
All this to say, I think he looks ginger when he is skating. It doesn't seem like a "walkthrough" type practice so the way he is moving around makes it seem like he is tense or has some apprehension cutting to his left. He moves to the right pretty well, so gotta be left side. If it is truly a lower body, I think he has a high-ankle sprain on his left ankle. Had that twice before and its debilitating.
