Kuba injures leg at practice

Ah... I meant Day 1 on the ice.

Semantics.

Big Ev wrote:Broken leg, 5-6 weeks

He's a lucky guy, so is the team, so are the fans. That's a lot better than what I was thinking it was gonna be (minimum of 10 weeks).

SpezDispenser wrote:

Big Ev wrote:Broken leg, 5-6 weeks

He's a lucky guy, so is the team, so are the fans. That's a lot better than what I was thinking it was gonna be (minimum of 10 weeks).

Also, Kuba tends to put up multi-point games routinely when he comes back from injury.

It doesn't just happen to Sens players though; Columbus' Kris Russell sprained his knee in practice: http://columbusbluejackets.sportsfanbooth.com/blue-jackets-russell-suffers-sprained-knee-in-practice/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Anyone else feel this could be a year of tremendous amounts of injury?

I'm not sure why this is any different, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of injuries.

From training camp already we have Kuba (semi-serious), Russell (sounds semi-serious), Eller (day to day). Undoubtedly more than that too.

SpezDispenser wrote:

Big Ev wrote:Broken leg, 5-6 weeks

He's a lucky guy, so is the team, so are the fans. That's a lot better than what I was thinking it was gonna be (minimum of 10 weeks).

With Kuba it will probably end up being 10 weeks. For the normal person, it takes 5-6 weeks. For Alfie it would be 2-3 weeks. For Kuba, it'll be 9-10 weeks.

shabbs wrote:If it was a rut, they better fix that ice!

How the hell do you break your leg by hitting a rut in the ice??? hahaah, ugh...

SensGirl11 wrote:Anyone else feel this could be a year of tremendous amounts of injury?

I'm not sure why this is any different, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of injuries.

From training camp already we have Kuba (semi-serious), Russell (sounds semi-serious), Eller (day to day). Undoubtedly more than that too.

As long as it's not just the Sens, I'll be fine with it.

In a Sun article, it mentions that poor ice conditions were a concern in the first skate and work on the ice delayed the start of the practice session where Kuba was injured.

I have thought for years that the ice at SBP was substandard but it was only when Kovalev mentioned it that I first saw a player complain about bad ice at SBP.

dennycrane wrote:In a Sun article, it mentions that poor ice conditions were a concern in the first skate and work on the ice delayed the start of the practice session where Kuba was injured.

I have thought for years that the ice at SBP was substandard but it was only when Kovalev mentioned it that I first saw a player complain about bad ice at SBP.

For a canadian franchise, this is unacceptable. why is the sbp ice so bad?

What does being Canadian have to do with it? Are you talking about geography (cold up here so there's no excuse) or something else?

I'm assuming he means geography reasons.

Another reason though is that SBP isn't used as often as other venues that share with other sport franchises (teams that share arena's with NBA/NLL/other leagues).

I suppose the Canadian reference can mean that as Canadians, and hockey being a huge part of our culture, that we should know how to produce the ideal conditions for ice. Location has little to do with it. Obviously when the temperature outside is too warm, the air conditioning units inside have to work extra hard to counteract the heat, and also in the warm weather, you can get fog on the ice. In the warmer weather, it is natural the ice will be softer than when it is colder outside.

But Canadians aren't the only ones that deal with weather change. Minnesota is more northerly than most Canadian cities.

Dash wrote:I suppose the Canadian reference can mean that as Canadians, and hockey being a huge part of our culture, that we should know how to produce the ideal conditions for ice. Location has little to do with it. Obviously when the temperature outside is too warm, the air conditioning units inside have to work extra hard to counteract the heat, and also in the warm weather, you can get fog on the ice. In the warmer weather, it is natural the ice will be softer than when it is colder outside.

But Canadians aren't the only ones that deal with weather change. Minnesota is more northerly than most Canadian cities.

This. And I don't think I've heard of ice being bad in any Canadian city except Ottawa. There's one thing to be chippy, and another where the players and coaches clearly have concerns with the ice.

It's high time we had new ice makers. This is silly, we're one of 6 Canadian teams and are powerful, well managed, good ownership, good fans - crappy ice? Time to fix that please, especially with Alfie leaning towards senior citizen in the NHL.

It seem that we're behind on a lot of things when it comes to our arena. Outdated scoreboard, bad ice, bad lighting (by this I mean I would prefer an arena like MSG where the stands seem to be darker than the ice itself, and it's easier to watch the game IMO), etc.

When you have $60 million in personnel on one sheet of ice, how could any owner, manager, or coach accept anything but perfection?

I went skating at SBP a couple of years ago and wasn't impressed with the ice.

I agree, its one thing when a player breaks his leg due to blocking a shot or something like that (aka foligno) but when you have your players breaking their ankle because the ice sucks. Its NHL (forget even that we are a canadian team - its a professional league) and the ice on ANY NHL rink should be as best as ice can be!