Injury Report: Nurse, get a Nurse for Nurse

[Cloned]

We'll see.
Even a few weeks without him is problematic.

In any event, the team should be fine long term. It's just that thinking about a potential Nurse injury coming into the season was giving me nightmares, that have now come true. The most important player on the team by a longshot considering role and lack of depth at the position.

Should be OK given the schedule both in terms of numbers of games and who we are playing. Treading water till he gets back should be the goal.

 

[RipsADrive]

We'll see.
Even a few weeks without him is problematic.

In any event, the team should be fine long term. It's just that thinking about a potential Nurse injury coming into the season was giving me nightmares, that have now come true. The most important player on the team by a longshot considering role and lack of depth at the position.

First Smith and now Nurse.

We've rode out the Smith injury adequately until now but this one is definitely concerning.

 

[iCanada]

To be fair, the Nurse that has been playing so far this season isn’t nearly as difficult to replace as the Nurse that played last season.

I agree with you in general though.

I don't think he's been that bad.

Fancies are better than last year. Luck down a lot though from last year.

Darnell Nurse - Summary - Natural Stat Trick

He's still a f***ing horse though. 26 minutes a night is no joke.

 

[Sweetpotato]

Nurse will be back within 20 days, he is tough as nails and knows he still has a chance at team canada and the olympics. im not saying the oilers arent his priority because im positive they are but the olympic possibility has to be in his mind.

This. He'll be back early.

 

[Cloned]

I don't think he's been that bad.

Fancies are better than last year. Luck down a lot though from last year.

Darnell Nurse - Summary - Natural Stat Trick

He's still a f***ing horse though. 26 minutes a night is no joke.

I don’t think he’s been terrible or anything, just that the number of mistakes he was making means he isn’t completely irreplaceable in the short term.

 

[CupofOil]

First Smith and now Nurse.

We've rode out the Smith injury adequately until now but this one is definitely concerning.

I think Koskinen is more capable of filling Smith's absence than any Dman would be filling Nurse's absence. The drop off from Nurse to Keith is as steep as any drop from any teams' #1D to #2D I'd imagine.

If it's only a few week thing, they'll be fine but I see "Nurse injury" and it's my worst Oiler related nightmare come true even if it's not long term.

Sounds like Broberg was called up based on what I just heard from Rishaug on Nielsen's show. It'll be interesting to see what he brings, I just hope that ease him in.

 

[McJC]

Huge hole to fill but good teams always have that "next man up" mentality.
Excited for Broberg, let's see what the kid can do

 

[Faelko]

Time to go get Chiarot?

edit: wow he’s expensive, not sure that’s doable right now

 

[iCanada]

I don’t think he’s been terrible or anything, just that the number of mistakes he was making means he isn’t completely irreplaceable in the short term.

The number of positive he generates on the other hand does.

 

[Cloned]

The number of positive he generates on the other hand does.

I don’t think the team is doomed in the short term. They’ll likely play .500.

 

[McTonyBrar]

First Smith and now Nurse.

We've rode out the Smith injury adequately until now but this one is definitely concerning.

It’s for 4 games

 

[Zerotonine]

That random poster nailed it lol

well that sucks

What was said?

 

[RipsADrive]

What was said?

Don’t quote me on this but I’ve heard a rumour that Nurse broke his finger near the end of the game… 2-3 weeks. Would be a huge loss.

See quoted post.

He was right about the approximate timeline too.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

 

[Cloned]

I was right, they did recall Lagesson.

Also Smith on LTIR I think means they feel comfortable enough with Skinner now.

 

[Oilers in NS]

To all the people that were calling out Nurse saying he sucked and bla bla bla, what do you wanna do now?

 

[duul]

Guys like Broberg dream of this opportunity. You have to play him with Ceci by the way. Keith-Bouchard is our #1 now.

 

[russ99]

Koekkoek is a defensive chance against machine, people overlook this because MOAR PUKMVRS

This could be a blessing in disguise, we can see how Broberg is doing against NHL competition and the forwards have to play better in our zone to help out, as Nurse ate a lot of tough minutes, and there’s no D on the roster or system that can make that up.

 

[Oilers in NS]

A bunch of fans on here are about to learn a hard lesson on how they didn't realize what they had until they lost it.

I pray it's only a few weeks.

THats what I just said pal. The abuse that Nurse takes on this board is unreal. I wonder if these fans are happy now?

 

[Oilers in NS]

Guys like Broberg dream of this opportunity. You have to play him with Ceci by the way. Keith-Bouchard is our #1 now.

Whats wrong with Ceci?

 

[McTonyBrar]

I was right, they did recall Lagesson.

Also Smith on LTIR I think means they feel comfortable enough with Skinner now.

Smith in there for cap reasons I think

 

[Oilers in NS]

Nurse has made his fair share of mistakes as well, it’s not like he was playing great shutdown defense this season. The question is how many more mistakes Keith/Russell/Broberg will make.

u sure are an optimist

 

[Cloned]

u sure are an optimist

I think we’ll be OK, have been saying it all along in this thread…

 

[Faelko]

How do we shut off the page refresh? Nothing more infuriating then losing a post lol

 

[russ99]

Guys like Broberg dream of this opportunity. You have to play him with Ceci by the way. Keith-Bouchard is our #1 now.

Keith needs the support more than Bouchard, IMO. I’d go with:

Keith - Ceci
Russell - Barrie
Broberg - Bouchard

and live with some growing pains from the third pair, along with all forwards on deck helping out all three pairs in our zone.

 

[TFHockey]

Ah shit.

so do we see another recall now that it’s been confirmed?

I think we only have 6 D who aren’t injured right now with KK and Nurse both down?

also credit to the guy on here last night who his friend let him know about this right after the game. You called it

Broberg and Lagesson recalled. Oh man.