Injury Report: Grabner Taken to the Hospital After a High Stick (UPD: Returns 3/7 or 3/9)

[Ebb]

I'd give him an extra game (CGY) or two (CGY & LA) off to hone his game in practices. You know LA will target him, because that's what they do.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Look through the dates in this thread. "Day to day" in December. lol

I'll give the team and the docs a break on this one. Prognosis for this type of his injury is difficult; similar to post-concussion effects.

 

[TheLegend]

I'll give the team and the docs a break on this one. Prognosis for this type of his injury is difficult; similar to post-concussion effects.

He’s been skating with the team for over a month now. The one issue holding him back was his ability to see through traffic at speed.

 

[Mosby]

It's probably worthwhile for him to switch to one of those Dany Heatley style visors.

 

[Summer Rose]

whew scared me when I saw this thread again .... great to see ..

I see what you did there...

 

[Jakey53]

He’s been skating with the team for over a month now. The one issue holding him back was his ability to see through traffic at speed.

You lost me on this one. Please clarify.

 

[TheLegend]

You lost me on this one. Please clarify.

You need to read Tocchet quotes a little closer.

 

[MIGs Dog]

You lost me on this one. Please clarify.

Let me draw a picture.

 

[rt]

You need to LOOK AT Tocchet quotes a little closer.

Fixed

 

[BOGO]

I find it slightly interesting that we didn't see Grabner get a game with the Runners to check this out. Seems a bit odd, but maybe they figure they have tested it out well enough in practice situations? I do know that the player has to agree to a conditioning stint...

 

[TheLegend]

Fixed

Both actually work.

 

[Hogan20]

I find it slightly interesting that we didn't see Grabner get a game with the Runners to check this out. Seems a bit odd, but maybe they figure they have tested it out well enough in practice situations? I do know that the player has to agree to a conditioning stint...

I think it wasn't really a game play issue where he needed to get up to speed as much as the other guys who had injuries to their bodies did. Grabs probably could've skated the next day if the injury wasn't that bad so him practicing with the NHL guys as opposed to with the AHL guys wouldn't really make all that much of a difference.
Also, their last games were March 1 and 2 in Colorado. Next game is tomorrow so if he didn't play tonight but was playing Saturday, he would be playing back to back nights which the organization probably didn't want.

 

[TheLegend]

Friedman with a nice piece in his 31 thoughts column on Grabs.

31 Thoughts: Oilers GM search leaving no stone unturned - Sportsnet.ca

 

[_Del_]

I don't know if they've mentioned it on FoxSAZ, but I caught on an away broadcast this week that his pupil is currently fully-dilated (semi-permanently) and his vision in the eye is somewhere around 50% at the moment. Hopes are that it will continue to improve.

 

[SniperHF]

I don't know if they've mentioned it on FoxSAZ, but I caught on an away broadcast this week that his pupil is currently fully-dilated (semi-permanently) and his vision in the eye is somewhere around 50% at the moment. Hopes are that it will continue to improve.

So try and pass him on the left.

Wonder which one is his eye dominance. He shoots left but he's probably right handed so he's probably right eyed.

 

[rt]

I don't know if they've mentioned it on FoxSAZ, but I caught on an away broadcast this week that his pupil is currently fully-dilated (semi-permanently) and his vision in the eye is somewhere around 50% at the moment. Hopes are that it will continue to improve.

This happened to Dan Cleary also. One fully-dilated eye from a hockey injury.

 

[Mosby]

Carl Soderberg too.

 

[Ebb]

I don't know if they've mentioned it on FoxSAZ, but I caught on an away broadcast this week that his pupil is currently fully-dilated (semi-permanently) and his vision in the eye is somewhere around 50% at the moment. Hopes are that it will continue to improve.

Hopefully it's not permanent. If so, he'll look creepier than he did with the mustache. Of course if it ends up permanent, might as well embrace the creepiness. He could shave his head (or grow one of those spiked reverse-mohawks), re-grow the mustache, get a head tattoo or two, and only appear shirtless in public (apart from games that is)

 

[Name Nameless]

I don't know if they've mentioned it on FoxSAZ, but I caught on an away broadcast this week that his pupil is currently fully-dilated (semi-permanently) and his vision in the eye is somewhere around 50% at the moment. Hopes are that it will continue to improve.

That's what I said a few days ago: he now has the David Bowie-look. So it wasn't just me, then.