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tim1_2 wrote:Bobby Ryan's finger isn't even broken this time...it's bruised.  He pulled himself out of the game last night because the pain was too much.  He should've made that call a half hour earlier so McCormick could've played.

tim1_2 wrote:Lazar is basically our new Condra.  Speedy, good defensively, can't score if his life depended on it.

PTFlea wrote:

kyle turris wrote:Bobby Ryan will be out for a while due to his hand again. Is it always the same hand? Is it made of glass or something? He might want to think about getting a better glove with better padding.

I'm telling everyone...we need a top six winger.

kyle turris wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

kyle turris wrote:Bobby Ryan will be out for a while due to his hand again. Is it always the same hand? Is it made of glass or something? He might want to think about getting a better glove with better padding.

I'm telling everyone...we need a top six winger.

especially on the LW. what happened to Mac? he was supposed to be real close? my guess is that his symptoms have reduced quite a bit but they are still lingering. and if that's the case they may stay that way for a long long while.

we need a guy for the LW in a big way. i wouldn't do anything on the RW necessarily as a guy like Dzingel plays both sides and can spot in there until Ryan is back. come next year a guy like colin white will likely play 3rd line RW and move pyatt to the 4rth line (well, that's believing neil either retires of becomes a 13th forward, both a very plausible and could be good) but i don't see anyone as certain for that LW spot. I don't see smith being resigned and likely dzingel on that 3rd line LW spot.  

wprager wrote:Ryan has a microfracture. I don't think it's the same finger all three times but, yes, he needs better gloves or something. This time door some train they can't freeze it.

I seriously doubt that the game would have been very different if Ryan sat and McCormick played.

Perhaps going with Condon would have been better to shake the team up a bit. Take them out of their comfort zone to focus them a little.

The term bone bruise is a misnomer and makes the injury seem less serious than it is.  A so-called bone bruise is actually a fracturing of the inner layer of bone.
Bones are composed of 2 different types of bony tissue, the compact (cortical) bone and the cancellous (spongy) bone.  

*    The compact bone is the outer layer of bone and is highly organized, solid, and extremely strong.  When you injure this layer of the bone, it is referred to as a stress reaction or an occult fracture.
*    The cancellous bone is the innermost layer of bone.  Unlike the outer layer of bone, it is not arranged in concentric layers, but in plates (called trabeculae) which form an irregular meshwork that is neither as organized nor as strong as the outer bone.  An injury to this area of the bone represents very small fractures to the trabeculae in the meshwork of the bone and may be referred to as a bone bruise.

PTFlea wrote:

kyle turris wrote:

PTFlea wrote:

kyle turris wrote:Bobby Ryan will be out for a while due to his hand again. Is it always the same hand? Is it made of glass or something? He might want to think about getting a better glove with better padding.

I'm telling everyone...we need a top six winger.

especially on the LW. what happened to Mac? he was supposed to be real close? my guess is that his symptoms have reduced quite a bit but they are still lingering. and if that's the case they may stay that way for a long long while.

we need a guy for the LW in a big way. i wouldn't do anything on the RW necessarily as a guy like Dzingel plays both sides and can spot in there until Ryan is back. come next year a guy like colin white will likely play 3rd line RW and move pyatt to the 4rth line (well, that's believing neil either retires of becomes a 13th forward, both a very plausible and could be good) but i don't see anyone as certain for that LW spot. I don't see smith being resigned and likely dzingel on that 3rd line LW spot.  

Jussi Jokinen?

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:Ryan has a microfracture. I don't think it's the same finger all three times but, yes, he needs better gloves or something. This time door some train they can't freeze it.

I seriously doubt that the game would have been very different if Ryan sat and McCormick played.

Perhaps going with Condon would have been better to shake the team up a bit. Take them out of their comfort zone to focus them a little.

A microfracture is just a bad bruise.  We learned that when we tried to play up Stone's injury from the Subban slash.  Being able to play through it is just a matter of pain tolerance.

Anderson was planned to leave the team after the game, so why would we have started anyone except him???

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:Ryan has a microfracture. I don't think it's the same finger all three times but, yes, he needs better gloves or something. This time door some train they can't freeze it.

I seriously doubt that the game would have been very different if Ryan sat and McCormick played.

Perhaps going with Condon would have been better to shake the team up a bit. Take them out of their comfort zone to focus them a little.

A microfracture is just a bad bruise.  We learned that when we tried to play up Stone's injury from the Subban slash.  Being able to play through it is just a matter of pain tolerance.

Anderson was planned to leave the team after the game, so why would we have started anyone except him???

kyle turris wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:Ryan has a microfracture. I don't think it's the same finger all three times but, yes, he needs better gloves or something. This time door some train they can't freeze it.

I seriously doubt that the game would have been very different if Ryan sat and McCormick played.

Perhaps going with Condon would have been better to shake the team up a bit. Take them out of their comfort zone to focus them a little.

A microfracture is just a bad bruise.  We learned that when we tried to play up Stone's injury from the Subban slash.  Being able to play through it is just a matter of pain tolerance.

Anderson was planned to leave the team after the game, so why would we have started anyone except him???

You really have it in for him eh?
I don't think every bruise is e same either and pain tolerance can be very different in how they are tolerable depending on where the pain is. If he's having problem closing his hand around the stick because of the pain then I doubt he can be effective in his play.

wprager wrote:With Ryan out McCormick will draw in ... as the 4th line left-winger.  The only thing that Ryan's absence resulted in was more ice-time for the top 9.  So don't tell me that we would have somehow been a stronger team if Ryan didn't play at all and we had McCormick there, instead.

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:With Ryan out McCormick will draw in ... as the 4th line left-winger.  The only thing that Ryan's absence resulted in was more ice-time for the top 9.  So don't tell me that we would have somehow been a stronger team if Ryan didn't play at all and we had McCormick there, instead.

Typically I think it's better when a team has a full lineup for most of the game.