Pre-Game Talk: Panthers @ Red Wings Jan 26

[Benched]

Early 5pm start.

Looks like no Barkov again for this one.

Steve Gorten (@sgorten) tweeted at 11:46 AM on Sat, Jan 25, 2014:
#FlaPanthers coach Peter Horacek said injured C Aleksander Barkov (knee) won't travel with team but might join them during 4-game trip

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[Android 16]

Early 5pm start.

Looks like no Barkov again for this one.

Steve Gorten (@sgorten) tweeted at 11:46 AM on Sat, Jan 25, 2014:
#FlaPanthers coach Peter Horacek said injured C Aleksander Barkov (knee) won't travel with team but might join them during 4-game trip

Is it worse than originally thought or does he just need the knee to recuperate?

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Is it worse than originally thought or does he just need the knee to recuperate?

He's still on active so I don't think it is serious. I think they are being cautious. Rather him miss 3-4 games rather than 10-12.

 

[Benched]

Is it worse than originally thought or does he just need the knee to recuperate?

I really wish they'd say something on the severity but the fact that he isn't on IR tells me he will probably be back against Boston. I think he misses this game, travels on Monday, and practices and plays Tuesday.

 

[batting1k]

So if it was more serious he'd have been put on the IR already? Makes sense, just curious.

 

[walle]

So if it was more serious he'd have been put on the IR already? Makes sense, just curious.

well not really. there's not really need for that extra roster spot as of this moment so they can wait with it. he could be put retroactively to IR later also.

 

[SeasonTicket]

Is it worse than originally thought or does he just need the knee to recuperate?

He's probably getting an MRI on it.

 

[Mogo]

Going by how Panthers have handled shady injuries before. First saying just as precaution. It goes. Pre-caution -> day-to-day -> IR -> couple months -> out for season. So by the end of the road trip it should be updated to IR if it's serious and there just keeping the truth from us

If Barkov is out this road trip we can pretty much kiss any playoff hopes goodbye. I don't see us winning many without him in the lineup.

 

[Benched]

Going by how Panthers have handled shady injuries before. First saying just as precaution. It goes. Pre-caution -> day-to-day -> IR -> couple months -> out for season. So by the end of the road trip it should be updated to IR if it's serious and there just keeping the truth from us

If Barkov is out this road trip we can pretty much kiss any playoff hopes goodbye. I don't see us winning many without him in the lineup.

We were pretty much already realistically out of the playoffs before this anyways.

 

[Sykwitit]

We were pretty much already realistically out of the playoffs before this anyways.

obligatory playoffs gif.

 

[batting1k]

Going by how Panthers have handled shady injuries before. First saying just as precaution. It goes. Pre-caution -> day-to-day -> IR -> couple months -> out for season. So by the end of the road trip it should be updated to IR if it's serious and there just keeping the truth from us

If Barkov is out this road trip we can pretty much kiss any playoff hopes goodbye. I don't see us winning many without him in the lineup.

I don't understand though. Why do they have to be like that with injures? Why are we at least not entitled to a reliable injury status? Especially since we're dealing with an up and coming rookie here who we all know is important to the long term success of the club. At least we know he can walk and somewhat skate (considering he finished the first period vs. Buffalo) so I can't see how this could be too serious.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Going by how Panthers have handled shady injuries before. First saying just as precaution. It goes. Pre-caution -> day-to-day -> IR -> couple months -> out for season. So by the end of the road trip it should be updated to IR if it's serious and there just keeping the truth from us

If Barkov is out this road trip we can pretty much kiss any playoff hopes goodbye. I don't see us winning many without him in the lineup.

Playoff hopes ended when the team started 3-12. Since I'm going to the Toronto game I hope Barkov is back for it, but they shouldn't push him, we all know the Panthers luck with injuries.

Some joker on the main boards was trying to argue how Versteeg doesn't make a team worse, so I did some calculations: Panthers record with Versteeg on the team: 4-12-4 without:16-12-3. Now if we could only unload Markstrom

 

[PanthersHockey1]

This 4 game roadtrip could be the final nail in the coffin. Detroit, Boston, Toronto, and scorching hot Columbus...I dont have the warm and fuzzies about this week.

 

[LUUUUUIS]

I don't understand though. Why do they have to be like that with injures? Why are we at least not entitled to a reliable injury status? Especially since we're dealing with an up and coming rookie here who we all know is important to the long term success of the club. At least we know he can walk and somewhat skate (considering he finished the first period vs. Buffalo) so I can't see how this could be too serious.

This is what confuses me about injuries and sports fans in general. Why are teams obligated to tell the fans anything? We're not entitled to any information, really. There are people that we come into contact every day that perform some sort of service for us, but we don't ask them to fax us their medical records.

They don't owe us anything just because we're curious.

 

[Effe]

WTF is happening, Sabres got 4-2 away vs Columbus with 7 min to go and Jets got 4-3 in Toronto with 10 to go. So a win vs Wings would bring us back in the race again. But we need 3 wins on the next 4 games.