Confirmed with Link: Jack Eichel has herniated disc in neck/season over

[joshjull]

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[Zman5778]

Lazy, heartless bastard. Good riddance.







(do I really need a sarcasm note here?)

 

[oldgoalie]

Get healthy Jack. Hope it goes well and he has an easy recovery.

 

[57special]

I am no expert, but i would think that an upper spine injury is better for an athlete than a lower spine.

 

[explore]

I've had an L4/L5 herniated disc, which isn't exactly rare, but a cervical herniated disc sounds scarier

 

[Royisgone]

You wonder if this is the part of his career where it all goes south, b/c of the "bad back" that will ultimately cut his career short.

One thinks of thinks of Bobby Orr and his knees, or Lemieux and his bad back that was never right after a certain point in time.

 

[EichHart]

Most likely a result from this injury?

https://www.wkbw.com/sports/sabres/eichel-makes-training-camp-debut-following-upper-body-injury

 

[BFLO]

Most likely a result from this injury?

https://www.wkbw.com/sports/sabres/eichel-makes-training-camp-debut-following-upper-body-injury

There's no evidence the pre-training camp injury and which ended his season were the same.

Did he injure his neck in summer training and then this moment was when he aggravated the injury to point that he needed surgery?

Or were they separate? It's all speculation for now.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

Most likely a result from this injury?

https://www.wkbw.com/sports/sabres/eichel-makes-training-camp-debut-following-upper-body-injury

The rumor mill on that injury was lower on the upper body. Some speculated it was ribs and others that it was a shoulder.

 

[EichHart]

There's no evidence the pre-training camp injury and which ended his season were the same.

Did he injure his neck in summer training and then this moment was when he aggravated the injury to point that he needed surgery?

Or were they separate? It's all speculation for now.

This is what I think happened because in training camp he was out for almost a week and missed the scrimmage too, whatever injury he had was not a small one.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

My hunch is the earlier injury was exacerbated by a later one.

 

[flashsabre]

Where is the confirmation that he is having surgery?

 

[Snippit]

I believe it was pretty heavily reported (though never confirmed) that he had a broken rib in the first part of the season.

 

[flashsabre]

I believe it was pretty heavily reported (though never confirmed) that he had a broken rib in the first part of the season.

And an ankle injury. He never looked himself for a single shift this season.

 

[KiwiGriff]

Ouch. Herniated discs suck a lot. Ive got a shitty neck that sometimes impedes nerves and causes aches down my arm and neck muscles to lock up. If he’s herniated a disc there I imagine he would’ve had similar symptoms. Can’t make playing easy at all.

I hope he takes the 5-6 months and comes back awesome.

 

[slip]

Maybe they can repair his fractured love of the game -- a condition diagnosed by multiple armchair sports psychologists -- while he's under the knife.

 

[Gabrielor]

Would've loved to see him under Granato, because a new young core is blossoming without him.

Obviously, want him back healthy playing for Buffalo asap.

 

[Slapshot85]

How long does a recovery from this kind of surgery take?

 

[tsujimoto74]

Would've loved to see him under Granato, because a new young core is blossoming without him.

Obviously, want him back healthy playing for Buffalo asap.

Same, but we probably don't manage the spectacular winless streak that got Krueger canned with him in the line-up, so silver linings.

 

[Buffaloed]

This is a career threatening injury.
The fortunate recovery of Kris Letang from major neck surgery

 

[Gabrielor]

Same, but we probably don't manage the spectacular winless streak that got Krueger canned with him in the line-up, so silver linings.

I recently made the argument to someone that the Krueger-Eichelless-losing was a net positive.

If it doesn't happen, and we're 6th in the division right now, 6 points out of the playoffs, do the Pegulas use that to justify eviscerating the hockey department as intelligent business?

 

[BFLO]

It’s not confirmed that he was battling the neck injury all season. Pagnotta is a hack, he’s the guy who “leaked” the Ullmark plans to test free agency “news”, which was later debunked.

It would be good news for us if true because it would explain why Eichel didn’t play or look so good this season.

 

[Der Jaeger]

This is a career threatening injury.
The fortunate recovery of Kris Letang from major neck surgery

Hoping it's less severe than those two