Injury Report: Chris Kelly Out 6-8 Months w/Left Femur Fracture

[BostonBob]

Depends on your vocation, if it is hockey. I'm 38 and I find myself writing off players who are my age as old and over the hill. Scary stuff.

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

 

[Demon Eyes]

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

good thing Chara is still here for me

 

[BMC]

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

What's really bad for me is a lot of them are young enough to be my sons

 

[Ladyfan]

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

Most of the B's are younger than my daughter ...I am older than the coach


...so don't feel bad

 

[Artemis]

What's really bad for me is a lot of them are young enough to be my sons

They're ALL young enough to be my sons. Pasta is younger than my son, and it's going to accelerate from there.

 

[VanIsle]

good thing Chara is still here for me

Me too, now all the kids drafted are born after I graduated.

Long live Jagr.

 

[BostonBob]

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

good thing Chara is still here for me

Me too, now all the kids drafted are born after I graduated.

Long live Jagr.

Hey you kids - turn down that noise you call music, get off my front lawn and pull up yer damn pants !!!!!!!

 

[RussellmaniaKW]

I wonder if the Acciari callup is just to get the kid's feet wet while they buy some time to get Kelly back for the playoffs.

 

[roflstomper]

I have no inside information but there is absolutely no bleeping way Kelly plays this year. He broke his femur people. You're looking at 6 months minimum just to fully heal the bone. Never mind being in shape and in a position to take any contact for another couple months. Kelly is great though and I don't think he's done.

 

[ChargersRookie]

Hawks will sign him, the least a pro tryout.

 

[ODAAT]

I have no inside information but there is absolutely no bleeping way Kelly plays this year. He broke his femur people. You're looking at 6 months minimum just to fully heal the bone. Never mind being in shape and in a position to take any contact for another couple months. Kelly is great though and I don't think he's done.

The Cage could surprise

 

[SPV]

One of the saddest days of my life came about 15 years ago when I realized that every player on the Bruins team was now younger than me.

It was all done for me when Mark Recchi retired.

I figured we would never see Kelly in black & gold again; which is sad. He was terribly overpaid the past few years, but one of my favorites anyway.

 

[TCL40]

They're ALL young enough to be my sons. Pasta is younger than my son, and it's going to accelerate from there.

When my daughter realized Seguin was just a year older than she was and there are several players her age or younger.

I seriously don't think we see Kelly this season or in the playoffs and if we do he's going going to be slow and way out of sync. He missed months of skating and fitness and he won't return where he left off but will be worse.

My fear is Sweeney will re-sign him because he's a leader. It's time to let Kelly go and if they like him that much give him a job with the team.

 

[Alberta_OReilly_Fan]

kelly will help someone next year... but not at 3 mill.

useful to a young team looking for leadership or to a championship team filling a specialty spot... not useful to a vetern middle of the pack team like us

time to thank kelly for his underappreciated underrated tour of duty and move on much like the sad partings with thornton paille and campbell

 

[Fenway]

Back for the playoffs?

 

[Bread and Circuses]

Back for the playoffs?

This is great to see.

And.....


I have yet to wrap my head around the fact that I am 8 months older than Chara.

Also, I can't believe Talbot is only 32, he looks like he is 40.

 

[Alicat]

Back for the playoffs?

Yup.

The Cage rises

 

[Baddkarma]

Good for Kelly. We could see him for the playoff run gang Edit (Playoffs I mean).

 

[Bruinaura]

They showed him on Behind the B skating for the first time, one of the trainers played the Rocky theme when he came out. The trainer also said it's the first time in his twenty years with the team that they ever had someone with a broken femur.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

guy is a savage.
skating and thinking of playing in the playoffs after a broken femur.

Im nervous about playing baseball in a couple months after I strained my quad in November. lol

 

[DKH]

I always thought he was a pretty valuable player and somewhat surprised by the Chris Kelly hate. The problem was the way Claude used him- like he has Kevan Miller incorrectly that has led to both these players catching grief for performing outside their job description.

Kevan Miller when he lands next year as a bottom pair D man will show he has good value and is a good player.

Kelly in a bottom 6 roll especially 4th line is an asset. He can play LW and if you put him out there with Acciari and Ferraro I'll take that over any 4th line in hockey and I took a list around and I like the speed, smarts, and defensive component these guys would give you- and allow Krejci and Bergeron to use their energy elsewhere

other than the Caps a healthy Boston is going to be tough out in the East

 

[BMC]

Back for the playoffs?

I'll be go to to hell

 

[Jean_Jacket41]

Yup.

The Cage rises

Would be a great addition to the 4th line and PK.

 

[bruinmann77]

I always thought he was a pretty valuable player and somewhat surprised by the Chris Kelly hate. The problem was the way Claude used him- like he has Kevan Miller incorrectly that has led to both these players catching grief for performing outside their job description.

Kevan Miller when he lands next year as a bottom pair D man will show he has good value and is a good player.

Kelly in a bottom 6 roll especially 4th line is an asset. He can play LW and if you put him out there with Acciari and Ferraro I'll take that over any 4th line in hockey and I took a list around and I like the speed, smarts, and defensive component these guys would give you- and allow Krejci and Bergeron to use their energy elsewhere

other than the Caps a healthy Boston is going to be tough out in the East

this is spot on agree 100%

 

[Bmessy]

I always thought he was a pretty valuable player and somewhat surprised by the Chris Kelly hate. The problem was the way Claude used him- like he has Kevan Miller incorrectly that has led to both these players catching grief for performing outside their job description.

Kevan Miller when he lands next year as a bottom pair D man will show he has good value and is a good player.

Kelly in a bottom 6 roll especially 4th line is an asset. He can play LW and if you put him out there with Acciari and Ferraro I'll take that over any 4th line in hockey and I took a list around and I like the speed, smarts, and defensive component these guys would give you- and allow Krejci and Bergeron to use their energy elsewhere

other than the Caps a healthy Boston is going to be tough out in the East

These are good points. But the Kelly "hate" started for me because of asset management. Not because of his play on the ice. And obviously sometimes it was frustrating because Kelly would be plugged in every lineup hole because he was Juliens favorite toy

We let a 5 million dollar #2 defensemen go for picks but we keep a 3 million dollar #3/#4C? That is baffling and embarrassing and our team is ****ed for the next 4 years because of it.

No doubt Kelly is a useful player in the right role. But when your management makes decisions like that contempt starts brewing.