Injury Report: Mark Scheifele injury current information - Out estimated 6-8 weeks

[CorgisPer60]

I figured we could use a central topic for this. As far as I know, he's scheduled for an MRI this morning. We'll know the extent hopefully soon, which will likely dictate what Chevy does today.

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[SCP Guy]

Yup if he is done so are we...sell sell sell

 

[Hammer Slammer]

Yup if he is done so are we...sell sell sell

I dunno... we're too close to bail because of one injury.

 

[SCP Guy]

I dunno... we're too close to bail because of one injury.

I know....I'm in a chicken little kinda mood today

 

[Jeti]

Damn Islanders, every year they take out a key player of ours near the end of the season.

By every year I mean the last 2. Dirty team.

 

[Just Ducky]

Damn Islanders, every year they take out a key player of ours near the end of the season.

By every year I mean the last 2. Dirty team.

The Isles seemed to target our rooks last night from the very start. This is what you get from a Isles lineup of scrubs trying to stay in the lineup. They can be dangerous.

 

[SensibleGuy]

Schief being out really really screws up our lines.

 

[TheDeuce]

I suspect the following discussion has been repeated a few times today:


Chevy: "Hey there fellow GM. Remember those talks we were having about Jokinen? Something's come up..."


It's a pain but Scheif's not irreplaceable. This wasn't Macoun breaking a certain set of ribs.



m.

 

[scelaton]

Can anyone here post a clip of the hit? I was on a plane and didn't get to see the game.


Edit: NM--just saw it in the other thread. Doesn't look like a 'surgical' (e.g. ACL) injury to me as his skate thankfully wasn't planted. Maybe a minor MCL strain plus bruise (just a guess).

 

[PerryPooley]

He walked on his own down the hall to the dressing room..

 

[Whileee]

It's really hard to tell from a video, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an MCL injury (R).

 

[buggs]

He walked on his own down the hall to the dressing room..

True, but you can walk after tearing your ACL. The knee becomes unstable, not non-functional.

That said based on the video it didn't look too bad really.

Edit: watched it a bunch more times and his skate isn't anchored, but it isn't necessarily off the ice entirely. Just a guess but 2nd degree MCL sprain. Possibly cartilage damage too, but that'll depend on how firmly planted it was. 3-4 weeks, unless he's got cartilage damage too, then they might shut him down for the season (not that cartilage damage is that serious but the MCL would slow down his rehab).

edit corrected to get to the appropriate ligament on the knee - scelaton correction.

 

[Flair Hay]

Even an MCL sprain could be several weeks which could be more than enough time to sink us. He's not exactly the type of player yet that can play injured and have any grit to his game at all.

We saw last night how well Olli can handle 20+ mins - against a half AHL/rookie squad. If we didn't remember from last season.

We got back in the playoff race by being able to roll three decent lines, and everyone playing solid team defense. Without Scheif we are back to LLW and Kane-Olli-Buff. Third line is now Gooch-Slater-Frolik. That's a 4th line on a playoff team.

Chevy is essentially abandoning the team's chances if he trades Olli. IMO without Scheifele, those chances are LOOOONNNGGG

 

[scelaton]

Edit: watched it a bunch more times and his skate isn't anchored, but it isn't necessarily off the ice entirely. Just a guess but 2nd degree LCL sprain. Possibly cartilage damage too, but that'll depend on how firmly planted it was. 3-4 weeks, unless he's got cartilage damage too, then they might shut him down for the season (not that cartilage damage is that serious but the LCL would slow down his rehab).

Buggs, it can't be an LCL injury, based on where the impact was on his knee (on the outside, as usual). LCL tears are pretty unusual.

 

[buggs]

Buggs, it can't be an LCL injury, based on where the impact was on his knee (on the outside, as usual). LCL tears are pretty unusual.

Yes. Sorry, I meant to write MCL. The impact was on the outside of the knee, hence why I was thinking LCL, but it wouldn't have been stretched - the ligament on the other side would have been.

Thanks for catching that. I'll amend my post.

edit: right/write - same word, rite?

 

[Gm0ney]

The Isles seemed to target our rooks last night from the very start. This is what you get from a Isles lineup of scrubs trying to stay in the lineup. They can be dangerous.

They were sure taking runs at Scheifele all night.

 

[YWGinYYZ]

Aaron Ward ‏@aaronward_nhl · 52s
Early indications are that Mark Scheifele suffered an MCL injury. Likely out 6-8 weeks. #TSN

https://twitter.com/aaronward_nhl/status/441237022695358466

 

[Guerzy]

This sucks.

Aaron Ward ‏@aaronward_nhl 2m

Early indications are that Mark Scheifele suffered an MCL injury. Likely out 6-8 weeks. #TSN

 

[Hammer Slammer]

So he's pretty much out for the season unless we get into the playoffs.

 

[Just Ducky]

 

[viper0220]

****, that just put a dagger right thorough my heart

 

[SCP Guy]

single tear runs down my cheek

 

[Thesaurus]

Wow.

This ****ing sucks.

 

[Romang67]

F de Haan.

 

[Huffer]

Wow, that's a real dagger to the heart.