Injury Report: Boychuk

[Sparksrus3]

I'm missing the big deal. Pelech looked like a more than decent NHLer before his Thoracic Outlet Syndrome issue, and he should be back to 100%. That's not something that nags players. You have surgery to correct it, and it generally works out. The Islanders haven't been obsessive like Mike Babcock about L/R defensemen, and they've done fine with it.

You now have Mayfield as your number 7 defenseman.

I love it. You now have fans saying they should've re-signed Brian Strait. It's so Islanders.

Holy can't take joke Batman. BAAM! BOOM. WHACK!
I think I can accurately say that #37 should never wear our sweater again except down the road
at alumni events.After all he is in the top 50 for isles D man games played in a career.
Mayfield and Pelech are fine. Probably see them as our 3rd pair this coming year for a stretch of games.
How about this. If Boychuk can not start the year then I put Pelech on 3rd pair and keep
Mayfield as #7. This is how I see it if Mayfields progression is slower than we need..
Of course Boychuk will be ready and will play 70 games please

 

[rikker]

Holy can't take joke Batman. BAAM! BOOM. WHACK!
I think I can accurately say that #37 should never wear our sweater again except down the road
at alumni events.After all he is in the top 50 for isles D man games played in a career.
Mayfield and Pelech are fine. Probably see them as our 3rd pair this coming year for a stretch of games.
How about this. If Boychuk can not start the year then I put Pelech on 3rd pair and keep
Mayfield as #7. This is how I see it if Mayfields progression is slower than we need..
Of course Boychuk will be ready and will play 70 games please

i am with you on this. i think we need Mayfield's toughness more, but i have Pelech slightly ahead of him. read somewhere that Pelech played on the right side (he is LH'd), and that will definitely help his plight. we can only hope that he achieves the level of versatility that Bailey has achieved...

 

[Riseonfire]

probably pick up #37 on waivers from the jets at the end of camp.

gtfo!

 

[1calledsteve]

I think most people are sarcastic about Strait.

Trying to look at the positives this allows us to see how Pulock handles top 4 duties. Time to sink or swim.

On the flip side we are now thin on defensive depth. Granted Pelech and Mayfield have been good in limited time, but if someone else gets injured we really have no quality bodies in Bridgeport

 

[Islanders1932]

This is fantastic news. Martinek deserves one more shot.

This joke never gets old

 

[13th Floor]

Those are in chronological order. I think people are starving for hockey news, and therefore speculating hard on very limited information. We'll see how it plays out.

 

[13th Floor]

A few more:





Definitely something there, but way too cryptic to know how serious or what this means.

 

[LordNeverLose]

I'm missing the big deal. Pelech looked like a more than decent NHLer before his Thoracic Outlet Syndrome issue, and he should be back to 100%. That's not something that nags players. You have surgery to correct it, and it generally works out. The Islanders haven't been obsessive like Mike Babcock about L/R defensemen, and they've done fine with it.

You now have Mayfield as your number 7 defenseman.

I love it. You now have fans saying they should've re-signed Brian Strait. It's so Islanders.

OT, but didn't Babcock play Rielly at RD for large chunks of last season despite being LH?

 

[SLAPSHOT723]

OT, but didn't Babcock play Rielly at RD for large chunks of last season despite being LH?

They don't really have a lot of RHD's, so Babcock didn't really have a choice.

IIRC, he only had Rafalski when Detroit won the Cup in 2008. Pretty sure their defense was:

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Lebda-Lilja

And they never really got a RHD in his entire time there.

 

[Richie Daggers Crime]

Definitely something there, but way too cryptic to know how serious or what this means.

Probably early retirement.

 

[WhitePony]

Erhoff/Seidenberg, come on down.

 

[rikker]

ok Mr Pony... what else do you see in that crystal ball of yours?

deHaan and Bailey for Perry?

 

[WhitePony]

ok Mr Pony... what else do you see in that crystal ball of yours?

deHaan and Bailey for Perry?

I can tell you that Bailey will be on this team as long as he wants to be here.

 

[A Pointed Stick]

I can tell you that Bailey will be on this team as long as he wants to be here.

Did someone **** on him too?

 

[Space Herpe]

i am with you on this. i think we need Mayfield's toughness more, but i have Pelech slightly ahead of him. read somewhere that Pelech played on the right side (he is LH'd), and that will definitely help his plight. we can only hope that he achieves the level of versatility that Bailey has achieved...

So, he's a warrior?