Injury Report: Niklas Kronwall: On LTIR; Earliest return Feb. 13

[Claypool]

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[Zetterberg4Captain]

yikes

 

[Mister Ed]

Marchenko will be back, so everyone is happy, right?

That's a tough loss. Look for Dekeyser and Green to step up in his absence.

 

[Vladdy84]

Oh well. Sit Big E down. Bring in Marchenko and XO.

Let Green and Smith run the damn PP

 

[Shaman464]

I bet Kindl is pretty stoked.

 

[Flowah]

Well Jesus Christ.

As bad as he's been this season he's a damn sight better than E and Smith who now are much safer in their positions because Kronner has gone down. And yeah, this might be the return of Kindl. Hopefully not.....

 

[Electric Eric]

Well ****.

I know Kronwall has declined but this is still a big hit to our blueline. Well DDK lets see what you got.

Hope Kenny uses this time to evaluate the state of the defensive talent.

 

[Frk It]

So

Dekeyser-Green
Quincey-Marchenko
Ericsson-Smith

 

[ap3x]

According to some perceptions of how useless he is this season, that won't be a huge blow.

 

[The Geelee]

He's been pretty bad this season but this is still a big hit to an already weak defense with him in the lineup.

 

[chances14]

Maybe this explains his rapidly deteriorating play this season more than his age

 

[SoupNazi]

Time for the rest of the D to step up, I suppose.

 

[hyduK]

I expect any more ES goals against this causes to be evened out by Green's presence on the 1st unit.

No but serious this sucks, still it's 2-4 weeks and there's an all star break during that so it could be worse.

Maybe this gets Kenny to pick up the phone.

 

[Frk It]

****. The odds of us trading for a vet rental at the deadline just went up 1000% I feel like.

 

[chances14]

One thing we have going is that the all star break will take up at least one week of his recovery time. Probably why they decided to do it now

 

[chances14]

I expect any more ES goals against this causes to be evened out by Green's presence on the 1st unit.

No but serious this sucks, still it's 2-4 weeks and there's an all star break during that so it could be worse.

Maybe this gets Kenny to pick up the phone.

Doubt it. unless it's a call to Grand Rapids to bring up kindl

 

[Lampedampe]

I'm pretty sure this didn't come out of nowhere, he has probably had knee problems throughout the season. Which could explain his drop-off in play, i mean previous two seasons he really looked like a 1#Dman, not in the elite tier but he was certainly a 1#D and this season he's looked more like a 2#D.

Knee surgery is pretty serious though, i don't know too much about it. Maybe scoping isn't that bad, but can't knee surgery set you back quite a bit? 2 weeks seems very optimistic even 4 seems optimistic, but who knows.

Worth noting is that we haven't been without kronwall for a longer stretch since 09-10, he's played pretty much full seasons since Lidström left. So this could really expose our defense imo. I hope Smith pulls it together, if not call-up XO asap he deserves it.

 

[skate skate skate]

**** no!

2-4 weeks = at least 5 weeks?

 

[hyduK]

**** no!

2-4 weeks = at least 5 weeks?

eh, this year i think most of our injuries have come back ahead of schedule...

 

[InjuredChoker]

****. The odds of us trading for a vet rental at the deadline just went up 1000% I feel like.

2nd round pick for dan boyle.


you know it's coming.

 

[Frk It]

2nd round pick for dan boyle.


you know it's coming.

Dude.... I will go on a rampage.

 

[SimplySolace]

2nd round pick for dan boyle.


you know it's coming.

No. ****ing no.

 

[WingedWheel1987]

Somewhere Mrazek is curled up into a ball sobbing uncontrollably.

 

[Martinez]

****. The odds of us trading for a vet rental at the deadline just went up 1000% I feel like.

Mark streit is my guess

 

[silkyjohnson50]

I hate to say it, but I think our PP is about to improve with Green on the top unit now.

Time for the rest of the blue line to step up their games now.