jetsforever
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Injury Report: Wheeler leg injury
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There is a silver lining in injuries often.
I hate the flack that Wheeler gets, the harping on him playing top six, etc. Even if it's right it just seems like its every night people go on about it.
But if this is long term, like up to playoffs or season ending... that's money the Jets will have to spend.
And in the meantime, more ice for the fresh legs in Svech, Harkins and Vesalainen.
Get well soon Blake.
I hate the flack that Wheeler gets, the harping on him playing top six, etc. Even if it's right it just seems like its every night people go on about it.
But if this is long term, like up to playoffs or season ending... that's money the Jets will have to spend.
And in the meantime, more ice for the fresh legs in Svech, Harkins and Vesalainen.
Get well soon Blake.
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If it is a season ending injury or if he's out multiple months... that might be the end of the Jets season. The PP alone is gonna get blown back to the stone age. No silver lining here.
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Atoyot
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That's awful. He's been looking really good the past few. Right before it happened I was thinking about how it looks like he was regaining his form and how huge that would be for the team.
Atoyot
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I'm pretty sure Svech got injured in the first or early second. That or benched. I don't think he saw the ice in the third or for a lot of the second.
I wont go that far. Our season isnt over by a long shot.
It's a big negative for sure. But sometimes it can be surprising what positives can come from a negative.
GreatSaveEssensa
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Just think of Sandin from TO. It looked really bad at first but then was only 2/3 weeks.
If its long term then I think you need to bring Cole up after the WJHC as he is a highly skilled player that will help the PP and will help with the playmaking in the top 6.
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I think if it's long term we really need to make a trade for a right handed shot as we were already very thin on right handed shooters
But weren’t you arguing that wjhc has very little benefit for Perfetti that he’s already playing against pros so they may as well play him in the nhl.
This is the live look at it. There's an edit (my edit) towards the end when he's on the bench because they were showing a replay in between.
And the slo-mo replay
And the slo-mo replay
If it were up to me I'd call him right back up but that isn't how the Jets work, they have already promised hockey Canada and Cole he could play so they will keep their word.
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Unfortunate to have this happen during his best game of the year. However, it gives others an opportunity that they clearly would not have gotten otherwise.
Looked to me like an MCL injury rather than ACL; hopefully, he will avoid the knife and be back by March.
Looked to me like an MCL injury rather than ACL; hopefully, he will avoid the knife and be back by March.
So hard to see from that angle. Looks lateral so I'd agree MCL but so much weird shit can happen with the knee so it could be anything from a second degree MCL sprain up to the terrible triad. Judging from the pain he's clearly in it is not a good thing at all, so I'm leaning toward more serious. I did a second degree MCL sprain (skiing) and had no reaction like what Wheeler expressed and I don't for a second believe I'm tougher than Wheeler.
I'm no medical professional but growing up I wanted to be Bobby Orr. I got none of the talent and both of the knees. Up for my fourth knee surgery at the end of the month (first on my right knee, or as I used to refer to it "my good knee") so I have more than a passing familiarity. As fate would have it I married a therapist who is sufficiently competent to have been mentioned in the old In Flight magazines by Rob Millete, so I know just enough to be wildly wrong.
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He was trending upwards like he always does after slow stars. This is not good. This could have very negative affect on the team moving forward.
flyingkiwi
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Guy finally scores and gets injured, what a tough break. I hope the team rallies around and plays well in his absence.
Didn’t catch the game, but that looked nasty. Hope he’ll be okay.
A hallmark of Jets teams the past couple years has been an inability to overcome adversity — well here comes a good chance to change that.
A hallmark of Jets teams the past couple years has been an inability to overcome adversity — well here comes a good chance to change that.
GJF
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What a shame because this was his best game this season IMO. In general he looked good over the last couple of games. He finally scored his first goal and not just some random back bounce or anything, you could see that it fired him up quite a bit and then he gets hurt. It's just so typical for how these things go in sports.
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Plus Perfetti would only get 4 minutes per night anyway, so he may as well go to the WJC
(actually, it's a real possibility Mau would Mau and give him sub-10)
bustamente
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Team didn't fold when Wheeler was in isolation and they shouldn't now, if the injury is as many expect it to be then it could be an opportunity for someone from the Moose
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Let's just hope he has Barkov's level of elite tier knees. Would be a real shame if this is a season ender as he was finally turning it around and playing well.
I guess the poor monkey didn’t like getting thrown off his back and decided some payback was in order?
