Injury Report: Aaron Ekblad 3/28/21 (fractured leg), out fishing with the boys

[Gentle Man]

Man thinking of last night's game. I am not blaming Connolly at all, because you can't. But the butterfly effect of him hitting the post seconds before the injury is crazy. Had he scored, the power play would have ended and the injury not happen. Just really heartbreaking. Like WTF.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Man thinking of last night's game. I am not blaming Connolly at all, because you can't. But the butterfly effect of him hitting the post seconds before the injury is crazy. Had he scored, the power play would have ended and the injury not happen. Just really heartbreaking. Like WTF.

I get what you're saying, but literally any other play in the game could be different and could lead to different circumstances on where Ek was on the ice.

 

[Boothinator]

Kind of what I expected given his reaction. Lets hope for no soft tissue injury.

That's not too bad actually. I was fearing a tear of the lugaments

 

[Gentle Man]

I get what you're saying, but literally any other play in the game could be different and could lead to different circumstances on where Ek was on the ice.

No I know.

It just looking at the sequence, Ekblad pinched that deep to keep the play alive on that particular PP that's all.

 

[Bag Of Beans]

Haven't done a lot of personal reading on the subject, but I have heard that the research around PrP has been promising so definitely could be worth while. McDavid used a hyperbaric chamber for his knee injury which I thought was pretty cool. There's a lot of emerging therapies that pro-athletes are able to access that the general public isn't which is why I urged people in my original post to not be part of the "his career is over" or "he'll never be the same" crowd.

Not sure if people down south have seen it, but here's a trailer for The Sportsnet special on McDavid's knee injury. It was quite a documentary.

Now I know the injuries probably aren't the same, but I would bet dollars to Donuts McDavid reaches out to Ek.

 

[floridada]

Not sure that has been determined yet. Surgery for the bone would be number 1 priority as that needs to be addressed in the first few days. If it is only a broken bone though that would be good news.

Really appreciate all your insight you've provided so far. It's nice hearing from someone actually that knows what they're talking about, and not an armchair doctor from twitter.

 

[McFlyingV]

Not sure if people down south have seen it, but here's a trailer for The Sportsnet special on McDavid's knee injury. It was quite a documentary.

Now I know the injuries probably aren't the same, but I would bet dollars to Donuts McDavid reaches out to Ek.

Absolutely. The two know each other quite well both being Ontario born exceptional status OHLers and playing in some international tournaments together. I'm sure Connor will reach out to him.

 

[Gentle Man]

 

[Bag Of Beans]

So we can expect Ek back for that SCF?

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

3 months isn't too bad, assuming rehab doesn't have any set backs

 

[Ghoste]

-ghoste

 

[ShootIt]

12 weeks ain't too bad

 

[FinlandPanther]

That sucks but could’ve been way worse.

 

[McFlyingV]

That's fantastic news. Sounds like the MRI must have come back with good news!

 

[McFlyingV]

That sucks but could’ve been way worse.

You take a fracture like this over ligament tears any day of the week. Great news.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Can't he just have my lower extremity?

Eh it's probably worse off than his injured one

 

[BabyBennettov]

A fracture that takes 12-weeks to heal after surgery... Sounds like he could make a full recovery... Cross fingers...

Ligaments injuries are so much worse, and the chances to get back to normal are way worse...

Obviously if you could choose, you’d rather see Aaron or any of our players not getting injured !

But between ligaments damage or bone fracture ? You choose the fracture any day of the week and twice on Sundays IMO.

 

[PanthersHockey1]

Great news.

 

[Chaos2k7]

Can we game LTIR like the Lightning? With Ekblad back if we make the 2nd round.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Really feel bad for Ekblad and the Panthers. There was a stretch were it seemed like the Panthers were doing everything right, and now it feels like what could go wrong has gone wrong. Hopefully Barkov is back soon so that might help a little, but Ekblad being out for the season really stings.

 

[KW]

No I know.

It just looking at the sequence, Ekblad pinched that deep to keep the play alive on that particular PP that's all.

Well, Hubie had an open net before that when their goalie fell, but he didn’t realize it until after he shot the puck. So, Indian spirits caused the fluttering of sticks and hands, eventually leading to Ek’s injury. But maybe they made a deal with evil spirits and allowed a lesser injury than what the truly vengeful bastard spirits had planned for him and it was the best possible outcome.

 

[Dr Beinfest]

This is good news versus what it could’ve been. At least there’s that.

 

[FinlandPanther]

You take a fracture like this over ligament tears any day of the week. Great news.

Exactly. Best bad news we could get.

 

[floridada]

Ekblad liked Zito's message on instagram

 

[violaswallet]

Can we game LTIR like the Lightning? With Ekblad back if we make the 2nd round.

Lol we would have like 26M in cap so we might be monetizing it haha.