Dr Jan Itor
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Didn't see anything on this, but per Russo:
The best possible news has come on defenseman Marco Scandella.
He didn’t blow out his knee. He has a sprained knee, coach Mike Yeo said this morning. I hear it’s a sprained right MCL, which is a similar injury to what Charlie Coyle had at the beginning of the season. He missed 11 games and a little less than four weeks.
It’s usually a 3-to-4 week injury, and the good news is that after Scandella misses Thursday’s game against the Nashville Predators, the Wild has 20 days off for the Olympics before it resumes its schedule Feb. 27-28 in Edmonton and Vancouver.
So the hope it that Scandella will be ready by the time the season starts again or at least soon after. That’s also good news for the Wild because a Scandella long-term injury would likely force GM Chuck Fletcher into some kind of desperate trade for a defenseman before the March 5 deadline.
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