Post-Game Talk: Cole's Plus/Minus: Zucker firing candy hearts at the Habs

[HandshakeLine]

lol...they were one of the first audio cassette makers...they had a commercial with Ella Fitzgerald where she’d sing live and break a glass with a high pitch and then they’d play a Memorex tape of her singing and the tape would break the glass too...like right...come on...is it live or is it Memorex was their slogan...I think they went out of business in the 90s

The American Memorex shut its doors in the mid-1990s, but their subsidiaries lasted until the mid 2000s.

 

[Andy99]

McCann - Bjugstad - Hornqvist
ZAR - Bleuger - Tanev

Is the obvious when Kahun and Bjugstad are back. JR is rumored to want a bottom six vet. Whose job do you think they want to improve on?

well hopefully it’s both ZAR and Bjug, but somehow I don’t see it that way...I’m still not enamored with McCann at wing...I like him driving a line with someone who can pot a goal...I think Kahun-McCann-Horny would be an optimal 3/4 line...with another LW for Geno, like Coleman or Hall (dream)...

 

[Gurglesons]

well hopefully it’s both ZAR and Bjug, but somehow I don’t see it that way...I’m still not enamored with McCann at wing...I like him driving a line with someone who can pot a goal...I think Kahun-McCann-Horny would be an optimal 3/4 line...with another LW for Geno, like Coleman or Hall (dream)...

I doubt we bring in a LW tbh. I guess if we do it shows where Jake is with his recovery, but I am pretty comfortable that Jake will be back by round 1.

 

[Crosbyfan]

----- ZAR Scored an ENG when he can't do **** offensively.

C'mon...he was dialed in on that one...no goalie would have stopped him.
...and lot's of pressure with just a two goal lead and over a minute and a half left.

 

[mpp9]

I doubt we bring in a LW tbh. I guess if we do it shows where Jake is with his recovery, but I am pretty comfortable that Jake will be back by round 1.

Regular season ends April 4th. It's a 4-6 month injury.

Not sure comfortable is the right word. Would need Jake being a month ahead of schedule.

 

[Gurglesons]

Regular season ends April 4th. It's a 4-6 month injury.

Not sure comfortable is the right word. Would need Jake being a month ahead of schedule.

4 months is April 4th. Not ahead of schedule at all.

There has been many NHLers who have played through similar injuries in the playoffs. I’m sure Jake will do everything he needs to to be ready.

 

[mpp9]

4 months is April 4th. Not ahead of schedule at all.

Injury was Dec. 30th. End of March is 3 months?

 

[Ogrezilla]

4 months is April 4th. Not ahead of schedule at all.

There has been many NHLers who have played through similar injuries in the playoffs. I’m sure Jake will do everything he needs to to be ready.

April 30th would be 4 months from Dec 30th.

 

[Gurglesons]

Well guys. I’m bad at math.

 

[mpp9]

Well guys. I’m bad at math.

All good. Jake seems like a freak of nature. He's taken alot of punishment and this is his first major injury. Maybe that holds true with freak healing powers.

I would think we see him back if it's a long playoff run. And in that, I'm pretty confident. This team is night and day from last year.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Blueger and McCann is very similar to Cullen and Bones imo.

I can see that.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Yeah add an extra month on to Jake. Shoulder injuries should be waited on, just far too many players that come back and aren't strong as they should be after they are recovered and get reinjured.

Maatta had that issue.
Melichar had that issue several times.
Look at Columbus and Josh Anderson. I'm sure there are even more examples.

I wouldn't play Jake unless this team made the finals. By then he's had a lot of time to be 100% and any other bs.

 

[Andy99]

Yeah add an extra month on to Jake. Shoulder injuries should be waited on, just far too many players that come back and aren't strong as they should be after they are recovered and get reinjured.

Maatta had that issue.
Melichar had that issue several times.
Look at Columbus and Josh Anderson. I'm sure there are even more examples.

I wouldn't play Jake unless this team made the finals. By then he's had a lot of time to be 100% and any other bs.

Honestly, I don’t expect him back at all this year, SCF or not...how effective can he be anyway not having played for 5 months...let him heal up well for next season...

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

I'd rather just let the dude rest and recover properly than to even potentially f*** with an injury that could have career-long implications with regard to his shot.

See ya in October, Jake. Rest, recover and then train your ass off in the summer.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Honestly, I don’t expect him back at all this year, SCF or not...how effective can he be anyway not having played for 5 months...let him heal up well for next season...

That's my stance too. To me he's an option next season.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I'd rather just let the dude rest and recover properly than to even potentially **** with an injury that could have career-long implications with regard to his shot.

See ya in October, Jake. Rest, recover and then train your ass off in the summer.

Could you imagine a jacked Jake Guentzel?

It kind of cracks me up, mate.

 

[exHornet]

Jake's surgery was on Dec 31st. Trust me, he's not going to be back on April 30th. Best case scenario, most likely, is 2nd week of May. And even that is highly optimistic.

You have to realize that this injury won't permit him to do much, if anything, with his upper body for at least another month. And even then, it's going to be light resistance at first. He has a long road back. He'll fully recover, but perhaps not on the time frame that we would like.

 

[vodeni]

Jake's surgery was on Dec 31st. Trust me, he's not going to be back on April 30th. Best case scenario, most likely, is 2nd week of May. And even that is highly optimistic.

You have to realize that this injury won't permit him to do much, if anything, with his upper body for at least another month. And even then, it's going to be light resistance at first. He has a long road back. He'll fully recover, but perhaps not on the time frame that we would like.

if he recovers by the beginning of the next season, that would be just awesome.

 

[exHornet]

if he recovers by the beginning of the next season, that would be just awesome.

That's not a concern in the least.

 

[66-30-33]

Be glad his shoulder injury is not his good arm, we need his good arm.

 

[The GM]

Yeah add an extra month on to Jake. Shoulder injuries should be waited on, just far too many players that come back and aren't strong as they should be after they are recovered and get reinjured.

Maatta had that issue.
Melichar had that issue several times.
Look at Columbus and Josh Anderson. I'm sure there are even more examples.

I wouldn't play Jake unless this team made the finals. By then he's had a lot of time to be 100% and any other bs.

Respectively I think melichar had more issues than just The shoulder

 

[SomeDude]

Respectively I think melichar had more issues than just The shoulder

Namely the complete lack of hockey IQ.

 

[mpp9]

If the expectation is that Jake is out for the year, then unless Zucker and Rust go an iron man streak, we're a top 6 forward injury away from being in trouble against any good team in the playoffs.

At the very least, we'd need a guy who can take a regular shift in the top 9. And that ain't Bjugstad.

 

[Turin]

Can we trade next years first for Trochek?

 

[66-30-33]

Can we trade next years first for Trochek?

Apparently he blows now.