Injury Report: Kasperi Kapanen back playing: March 2, 2017

[StevenB]

Too bad they don't actually tell us what the injury is.

 

[schenneuf]

They aren't telling us because it's a career-derailing injury. Bad PR.

 

[67Cup]

I predict we will hear that it's a "lower body injury and that he is week to week."

 

[Kingstonian84*]

They aren't telling us because it's a career-derailing injury. Bad PR.

Please tell me you are not being serious lol..... Lou and management are tight lipped when it comes to players injuries and their length of time needed to recover. I'm no doctor so I can't speculate on what his injury is OR how long the guy will be out... I'm going on what management has said which is its a "lengthy recovery", what that means is open to interpretation.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

I predict we will hear that it's a "lower body injury and that he is week to week."

fingers crossed, incident didn't look to bad, but you never know.

 

[schenneuf]

I'm going on what management has said

There's your first mistake.

 

[Randy Randerson]

fingers crossed, incident didn't look to bad, but you never know.

looks like his left leg got over-extended, guessing either high ankle sprain or a knee ligament tear. Either one sucks, but both have extremely high recovery rates, knee ligaments used to be a possible derailer of careers (remember Antropov?) but the surgeries have come a long way since then

 

[ThirdRowGreens]

They aren't telling us because it's a career-derailing injury. Bad PR.

They're not telling us b/c they never do. Remember all the speculation about Andersen's pre-WC injury? People on here were scouring Danish media trying to get any kind of info.

 

[Ramako]

I think the fact that he got up and off the ice on his own power is a very good sign.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

looks like his left leg got over-extended, guessing either high ankle sprain or a knee ligament tear. Either one sucks, but both have extremely high recovery rates, knee ligaments used to be a possible derailer of careers (remember Antropov?) but the surgeries have come a long way since then

yeah looked like a routine check but dude slipped and impact went to the legs, ughhhh im pretty ticked, i wanted to see Kappy with the leafs at the end of the year or even at tdl if someone got traded.
#Pray4Kappy

 

[LeafGm]

looks like his left leg got over-extended, guessing either high ankle sprain or a knee ligament tear. Either one sucks, but both have extremely high recovery rates, knee ligaments used to be a possible derailer of careers (remember Antropov?) but the surgeries have come a long way since then

Yep. After all, it's easy to forget that Morgan Rielly missed almost his entire draft year with a blown-out ACL in his knee, because his skating ability certainly hasn't suffered as a result. So, as much as it would suck if Kapanen has in fact suffered a similar injury and he misses out on some valuable developmental time, it's not a death sentence for his career, and it doesn't mean he'll be robbed of his amazing speed.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Of course it was some goon who did it(and cheap shotted Nielsen). I wish leagues would stop employing talentless plugs who are only out there to cause injuries.

 

[StevenB]

What a d--k move on Dotchin's part. Clearly intentional and he should be reprimanded for it. Or maybe Clune needs to teach him a lesson

Edit: forgot I already posted on this thread lmfao

 

[taurine330]

Man, I hate AHL. All these plugs out there to injury our players.

 

[Holymakinaw]

I predict that...........he will recover.

 

[Bullseye]

Or maybe Clune needs to teach him a lesson

Payback is not so much a thing anymore. The Bertuzzi/Moore incident kinda took that out of professional hockey.

I wanted someone to remind Tyler Bertuzzi of his dirty slew foot on Kappy last season but that never happened either.

They tend to mug the offending player at the time of the incident and forget it afterwards.

 

[deletethis]

Man, I hate AHL. All these plugs out there to injury our players.

Is this guy a plug? It doesn't appear so.

 

[Kaptah]

Any news about the injury?

 

[taurine330]

Any news about the injury?

I heard something about 8 weeks. Walking with some sort of cast. High ankle sprain is the most likely injury at this point.

 

[johnny_rudeboy]

I heard something about 8 weeks. Walking with some sort of cast. High ankle sprain is the most likely injury at this point.

Ah, thanks. So he will probably play more games this season?

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Is this guy a plug? It doesn't appear so.

Yes, he is.

 

[leafsgirl12]

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From That Tweet from a sports reporter it seems like a high ankle sprain.

 

[Antropovsky]

Man I really wanted to see him play 7-8 games with us this year.

 

[nuck]

I heard something about 8 weeks. Walking with some sort of cast. High ankle sprain is the most likely injury at this point.

Yeah you don't get a boot for blown knee ligaments. Eight weeks is the standard number they throw out for a high ankle sprain. Taylor Hall missed 17 games. Eichel missed about 7 weeks and 21 games. I expect Kapi will be back before the TDL

 

[Narow]

Will take a long time even after returning untill his speed is back ? Same as eichel