Injury Report: Playoff Injury Thread

[Metallo]

They had to play the Hamburglar in the playoffs two years ago so they shouldn’t have been shocked that the same situation came up again. No team has a real quality number 3 unless it’s a waiver exempt NHL ready prospect, would any other realistic option have been better than Hutch at that point? I’m not sure why they refused to sign a proper number 3 over the summer and here we are again without one signed, they seem to be deathly afraid of that guy getting taken off waivers (thanks, Toronto!). So we’ll likely do the same dance again unless/until either Werner or Annunen get their confidence as a real number 3 or they’ll just trade for one again. And that guy still won’t be better than Hutch.

Not sure what is the correlation here. Two different sets of goalies.

 

[Metallo]

Don’t know where to put it but I thought a lot of you might be interested. I know there was a lot of speculation what happened to Francouz during playoffs. Today there is an interview on Czech news web and he explains it in quiet a detail. I tried to translated to the best of my knowledge, but there are couple of thinks I am not sure I got correct.
In addition to the longing, you were also bothered by an injury in the playoffs, which appeared at the worst possible moment.
Well, right! One imagines that there will be a time when you can help the team to get somewhere. Unfortunately, it didn't happen to me, but to Chudobin. Of course, I was happy for him to be able to take Dallas as far as he did as a backup, but let me be honest: I wanted to experience this.
Why it didn't work?
Maybe it all started with my left knee, where I had a swelling. I received an injection that relieved the pain a little, but I was probably relieving the knee while overloading my hip. Already in a group match, I was hit by an opposite player when I had my leg clenched while doing split. It stabbed me in the hip, the place hardened after the match.
That wasn't that bad yet.
No. There was one back to back match in the 1st round of the playoffs. We agreed whit the doctors they would prepare me so I was able to play one match in the series. I didn't train much, I just strengthened and I managed it.
What happened next?
After Arizona, we went to Dallas, where we wanted to follow the same plan. But in the middle of the first match, Gruby fell to the ice after one safe and I knew right away that it is bad.
That’s when it got worse?
I went into the gate cold, which didn't help my hip at all, and it took me. Inflammation developed that limited me. My game was not what I would have imagined.
Is it in the goalie’s head?
I tried not to think about it. You don't feel pain in enthusiasm, I've played a lot of matches with it. But what was worse, the joint lost momentum and I couldn't stretch or bounce properly. It was really a big mental test.
A terrible feeling?
More like helplessness. The matches went quickly and the injury worsened sharply. At the same time, I knew that no one else was behind me. I don't want it to sound bad on other goalkeepers, but I felt like we managed the whole season with me and Grubauer, but after his injury I was left alone.
Source: Je mu třicet, tělo se ozývá. Přesto si Francouz vychytal v NHL slibnou pozici - iDNES.cz

Quite funny that we have to rely on foreign journalists to get Avs news, especially injury details.

 

[tigervixxxen]

Not sure what is the correlation here. Two different sets of goalies.

Right but living through the fact that playing a third goalie in the playoffs is something that can happen.

And yes, google is our beat reporter.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Right but living through the fact that playing a third goalie in the playoffs is something that can happen.

And yes, google is our beat reporter.

Well that's great because Google is never wrong.

 

[Foppa2118]

Quite funny that we have to rely on foreign journalists to get Avs news, especially injury details.

It's funny like getting kicked in the balls is funny. Just not to the ones getting kicked in the balls.

We've been getting kicked in the balls for over a decade now.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Francouz D2D
Bura D2D

Yah let the f***in good times roll

 

[Pokecheque]

Not sure what is the correlation here. Two different sets of goalies.

Why wouldn't there be correlation here? The Avs had two injury-prone goalies then, and they have two injury-prone goalies now. They're not that dissimilar.

 

[Metallo]

Why wouldn't there be correlation here? The Avs had two injury-prone goalies then, and they have two injury-prone goalies now. They're not that dissimilar.

You knew before they where injured that they were injury prone (if in fact they are)?

 

[Pokecheque]

You knew before they where injured that they were injury prone (if in fact they are)?

I think we can label them as such now. It might not be Pascal Leclaire-bad, but there's an issue.

As to whether the organization knew, well, they knew there was a possibility given what happened the last time.

 

[Metallo]

I think we can label them as such now. It might not be Pascal Leclaire-bad, but there's an issue.

As to whether the organization knew, well, they knew there was a possibility given what happened the last time.

That’s my point how can you know its going to happen to goalie C&D because it happen before to goalie A&B? There is no correlation.

 

[Foppa2118]

Didn't Frankie mention his injury was something he's played through in the past? Now he's got another lower body injury before even playing a game.

Sakic has been hitting a lot of home runs and line drives lately, but seems as though this should have been a red flag for him.

 

[the_fan]

There is always time to make a deal for a goalie. This team can't afford to lose goalies again, specially in the playoffs

 

[Avsrule2022]

Prior to last year, Frank played 50+ games in 6 out of the 7 previous seasons. Not really anything to give the Avs reason to question if he was injury prone.

 

[hockeyfish]

Francouz D2D
Bura D2D

Yah let the f***in good times roll

Oh no, dead to dead. RIP to them.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Prior to last year, Frank played 50+ games in 6 out of the 7 previous seasons. Not really anything to give the Avs reason to question if he was injury prone.

Its a Colorado thing. Varlys groin hasnt exploded since he left Denver. Hes only been shot in the head.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Didn't Frankie mention his injury was something he's played through in the past? Now he's got another lower body injury before even playing a game.

Sakic has been hitting a lot of home runs and line drives lately, but seems as though this should have been a red flag for him.

What RFA goalie likely to test the UFA market would you like to trade for at the deadline to get a look at?

 

[Mighty Makar]

Hopefully Bura isn’t out long.

 

[New Scotland]

 

[The Abusement Park]

I'll take how to light $4mil on fire for 6 Alex.

 

[SaltySkywalker]

Just throw everything at Anaheim for Gibson. f*** it.

Especially after that clinic he put on us.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Damn. That sucks for Frankie. I'm guessing this is likely to do with whatever was ailing him last August. I'm pretty sure they said he had a small surgery to clean up whatever it was that was causing him problems and I'm thinking that surgery didn't go over well.


Sakic needs to be on the phone for a Goalie asap. This is how you injure Grubauer now from over working him because we don't have a reliable backup to give him appropriate days off.

 

[kchan9]

f*** sakes, our team is so injury prone it's not even funny anymore

 

[tigervixxxen]

Ok fine, I guess we’ve entered the injury stage of the season.