Giroux Injury [Update: Is Alright; Kevlar GOAT]

[leafsgirl12]

He was wearing Kevlar socks... thank you for being so safety conscious Claude.

And the blade still cut him.

the socks stopped the cut from being worse

 

[Helistin]

Never doubted that he'd be fine. Equipment and pads down there are very effective.

Too bad Karlsson didn't get your memo that equipment and pads down there are very effective.

 

[EnglishDevil]

Glad for you guys, never like to see a player getting hurt, thank god for those Kevlar socks

Great news that he's fine though, look forward to seeing him on the ice against us tomorrow

 

[Flyers Time]

who was the hurricanes player who helped Giroux on the bench?

if that's what it looks like with kevlar socks, which looks like they saved his career

 

[Jray42]

who was the hurricanes player who helped Giroux on the bench?

Sekera IIRC

 

[Zen Arcade]

Wow, good news.

He's lucky it wasn't much worse.

 

[pacehimself]

Well time to buy stock in Kevlar socks and neck guards....if it looked that bad with the socks imagine what it would look like without them.

 

[RangerRider114]

I'm a Ranger fan but I enjoy watching Giroux play. This is fantastic news.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Soo glad he will be OK... Hope he continues his fantastic season.

 

[QJL]

Giroux is one of the game's great players and I'm happy to hear this isn't as serious as it could've been.

I enjoy watching him get shut down by McDonagh-Girardi too much and am glad I'll be able to watch it happen a few more times this year.

 

[Insulin]

who was the hurricanes player who helped Giroux on the bench?

if that's what it looks like with kevlar socks, which looks like they saved his career

Sekera IIRC

Yeah it was Sekera. He definitely deserves a shoutout for doing that. As soon as Giroux reached the Canes bench he got up and helped Claude up the tunnel.

 

[Will Hunting]

Good news for everybody, but especially for McEichel challengers. Philly would be a hell of a competition for them without Claude Giroux.

 

[Analyst365]

Considering he is OK the comments at the start are entertaining in their own right.

Devastating! Prayers for all involved! etc

 

[Appleyard]

Good news for everybody, but especially for McEichel challengers. Philly would be a hell of a competition for them without Claude Giroux.

Yep, here is a lineup map of 'who has played decent to good hockey this year':

Raffl-Giroux-Voracek
Schenn-Laughton-Simmonds
xxxxx-Couturier-xxxxx
xxxxx-Bellamare-xxxxx

xxxxx-Streit
Schultz-xxxxx
xxxxx-xxxxx
MDZ

Mason
xxxxx

Hard to do well when the majority of the D has sucked. And without Giroux it would basically be: Voracek, Simmonds, the kids, Old man Streit and Mason vs the world.

Coburn has not been awful either, but he is in over his head.

The D is just terrible, cannot move the puck and cannot defend.

We have quite a lot of good pieces up front, and most are playing as expected or above... the D is just monumentally bad.

The worst thing this year though is the PK... they changed the strategy and it went from top 10 to the worst, and yet the coach is still insisting they should continue to be super-aggresive. If the PK had been ~average the Flyers would be around the wildcard spots now if you look into the numbers.

 

[chunkylover53]

Philly was a few cut inches from challenging for McJesus.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Philly was a few cut inches from challenging for McJesus.

So accurate

 

[Hank Plank]

Can you imagine if he was not wearing the kevlar socks? Would have been horrific, Flyers and more importantly Giroux dodged a major bullet.

 

[Stranger Danger]

Phew, Simmonds dodged a bullet there.

What are you talking about?

 

[TOML]

League should look closer into ways of preventing this injury.

 

[Hank Plank]

Like what? Seems like the Kevlar did the job pretty well.

 

[pacehimself]

League should look closer into ways of preventing this injury.

Roller blades

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

Good news. From the earlier comments, I thought he was done.

 

[36kap36]

League should look closer into ways of preventing this injury.

What more can they do? The Kevlar socks are the best available protection and at this point it's on the players to choose to wear them. Freak accidents are always a risk when sharp skates are involved.

 

[Beige Van]

Let's thank the sports scientists that created technology that reduce a career ending injury to a missed game.

 

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Thank goodness he is okay.