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Clearly deranged
- Jul 3, 2003
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EJ’s wasn’t shoulder. More wrist/forearm.Lindholm clearly looked like he separated his shoulder. I'm going to assume the same about EJ too even though his reaction to the injury was a lot weirder than Lindholm's. You don't see players react that violently in pain when they get a shoulder injury. They usually keep the movements as minimal as possible.
I'd guess Lindholm is done for the season. No clue about EJ.
Z has taken such a big leap forward this season that I'm not even worried about him handling the top pairing without EJ. It's the Nemeth's, Girard's, and whoever they find for the third pairing that I'm worried will have difficulty getting increased minutes and responsibilities.
We've seen how spread out the pairings have been. Z spends lot of time with EJ, no doubt, but the pairings are constantly jumbled throughout the game that Z isn't relying on EJ to limit the mistakes he could end up making.I dunno, I definitely have concerns.
Zads has been great this year, but I feel a huge part of what has made him so good has been the steady consistently great play from EJ as hist partner. EJ playing as he had with Zads IMO was limiting the amount of mistakes and noticeable errors Zads was making.
How is he going to handle having to try and be the calm and consistent presence on that 1st pairing next to Barrie now? Or Girard or Nemeth if god forbid those guys get put on the top pairing instead.
I believe Zads could be capable of filling those shoes and I really hope he does, but I without a doubt have my concerns that we could also see a big drop in his play now as well.
Such a weird season, its almost like the Hockey Gods forgot to curse us until they realized we were actually in the WildCard race so they had to make up for it by taking away Mack's Hart season and now EJ.
Such a weird season, its almost like the Hockey Gods forgot to curse us until they realized we were actually in the WildCard race so they had to make up for it by taking away Mack's Hart season and now EJ.
Who knows what happens with Makar.If EJ is done for the season, anyway we'll see Makar or Timmins just like how we saw Jost last year?