Injury Report: Wayne Simmonds out up to 6 weeks (Upd. Broken Wrist)

[LeafChief]

Son of a bitch.

The injury luck this year is just incredible.

 

[MSZ]

Bad timing when they are going to face the toilet seats next week. Brutal.

 

[Racer88]

Sucks, but hey next man up.

Engvall better get back in now.

Unfortunately Engvall isn’t half the player Simmonds is

 

[Stephen]

This is bad news especially as the injury occurred in the same game as his two goal performance, but trying to look on the bright side:

-Maybe they play a little harder to compensate for the loss.
-6 weeks of rest for Simmonds.
-Joe Thornton is out 4 weeks January 20, which was 18 days ago, so he could be back in a minimum of 10 days?
-Sam Bennett available.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Get ready for playoffs you beauty

 

[Racer88]

Spezza turning out to be the iron man of the “old guys”.
Lol

 

[hamzarocks]

Man he was looking so good go. 6 weeks is a lot. Hopefully comes back healthy.

Need a trade for a physcial grinding 3rd liner now

 

[Deebo]

If he were to miss the next 6 weeks, that would be 20 games:

4 Calgary
3 Edmondon
3 Montreal
4 Ottawa
3 Vancouver
3 Winnipeg

 

[7even]

f*** allllll the way off

 

[CincoHolio]

It's underrated just how much this news sucks.

 

[Burnie97]

f***ing injuries this season. What a piss off. Our depth scoring is getting taken out every other game.

 

[Advanced stats]

Oohf, that sucks hard


Sign me up for Virtanen if he's cheap though...

 

[CincoHolio]

It's underrated just how much this news sucks.

We have no one who brings what he does to replace him. I was having a good Sunday until I heard this.


edit. didn't mean to quote myself there.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Are you f***ing kidding me!? Why can’t we have anything nice!?

Six Weeks my God how is that even possible?

 

[crump]

Damn. Why is it always on such a freak nothin play.

 

[Alerion]

That really sucks, he was turning back the clock and having that net front presence on the PP was great. Such shit luck too, that's Thornton and Simmonds on 1 in a million goes wrong kind of plays.

 

[SoftDumpNtheCorner88]

Why are people pushing for a trade?

We have depth, use it!

Soup should get to play with JT and willy for now, he needs to find his flow.

Promote the players playing hard and fill in the spots below with depth.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Robertson: Awkward collision on a hit, out weeks.

Thornton: Takes a hit while standing, out weeks.

Campbell: Stretches his leg weird, out weeks.

Dermott: Tries to dodge a hit but doesn’t, out for who knows long.

Simmonds: Puck off the hand, out weeks.


I can’t believe this nonsense. Aside from Dermott (as far as we know) how has every freak injury this season been worst case scenario in terms of prognosis?

 

[Nylander88]

That's just brutal. Damn. Is agostino a rugged player? We need that element.

He doesn't seem to get a sniff for whatever reason. Best bet to bridge the gap in house would be Joey Anderson. But Simmonds is one of a kind as far as net front, toughness, vocal leadership... not easily replaced in our lineup at all. But a hard forechecker, Anderson is probably the closest bet we have in house and healthy

 

[Superstar]

Ah shit, wonder if it's a boxer's fracture.. The bone in his hand that is on the outside connecting with the pinky.

I broke that bone is a similar fashion a decade ago and it was the same sort of recovery

Looks like it, they were showing on the replay of the trainer spraying the numbing mist on that area of his palm...a deep bruise shown through on TV, but it's clearly worse than it first appeared.

This sucks, need someone else to step up...will definitely miss his grit for the next 1.5 months.

 

[LeafSteel]

Bleep
Censored
Bleeping bleep bleep.

 

[Warden of the North]

Why are people pushing for a trade?

We have depth, use it!

Soup should get to play with JT and willy for now, he needs to find his flow.

Promote the players playing hard and fill in the spots below with depth.

It's been reported we were looking at trade options before this happened.

This might be what pushes the move to happen

 

[MattySnipes]

Oh ok. Great great! As he was heating up. Lovely. This is how it goes though

I think that Canuck should be suspended. I mean, what was he thinking dumping the puck like that. Talentless team with no spine.

 

[zeke]

Calm down guys.

Injuries to three 3rd/4th/extra line wingers, a bottom pair dman, and a backup goalie is a pretty light load injury wise.

 

[zeke]

It's been reported we were looking at trade options before this happened.

This might be what pushes the move to happen

Do the leafs look like a team that is urgently in need of a trade?