Sharks injury list was released;
From WTC:
Annual post-playoff injury list: Demers, Nichol, Heatley, Clowe, Boyle, Couture, Pavelski, Thornton
POSTED BY DAVID POLLAK ON MAY 26TH, 2011 AT 1:04 PM | CATEGORIZED AS GENERAL, HOCKEY, NHL, SHARKS, SPORTS
Playoffs over, here’s the annual injury report –though both players and coach Todd McLellan were a little vague as to when some of the damage actually occurred.
And we’ll start with some that weren’t in general circulation before now and work our way to Joe Thornton.
1. Jason Demers — right ankle, high sprain from Game 7 of Detroit series. Despite what was said during the Vancouver series he never was 100 percent good to go, mostly from a conditioning standpoint, but felt he might have been fully back for a sixth game in the Western Conference finals.
2. Scott Nichol — serious laceration above his knee requiring 20 stitches after being cut by Raffi Torres’s skate blade in Game 2. Nichol said there was no way he could have played in Game 3, and when the newly constructed fourth line had success after that, he totally understood the coaching staff’s decision to keep things as they were.
3. Dany Heatley — A broken left hand during the season and a high-ankle injury suffered during Game 3 of the Vancouver series.
4. Ryane Clowe — Shoulder separation, similar to Joe Thornton’s. Going to meet with medical staff today to find out if surgery required, likely three to four months of rehab needed. Clowe said only that it occurred in the Detroit series — even when asked directly if it resulted from that major hit by Nicklas Kronwall. Players said Clowe was so badly hurt he needed help getting his jersey on. “The toughest part was starting the game, but once the adrenaline got going, you start to think about other things,” Clowe said. And he thought that the secrecy worked, because Ryan Kesler kept asking him how his concussion was doing.
5. Dan Boyle — A damaged MCL in his left knee from a March 17 game against the Minnesota Wild, where he went down awkwardly along the end boards. Knee will have to be scoped to see if further surgery is required.
6. Logan Couture — Broken nose suffered when he collided with Clowe in Game 3 of the Vancouver series.
7. Joe Pavelski — Bothered by an ankle problem. He missed eight games from late December through early January with a lower body injury, but no confirmation that was the same issue.
8. Joe Thornton — Surgery scheduled today to reattach the tip of the little finger that was damaged late in the regular season after a slash from Dallas defenseman Stephane Robidas. Trying to play through that forced him to adjust his grip on the stick and that created a wrist problem, too. The shoulder separation in Game 4 of the Vancouver series? They’re going to wait till the swelling goes down over the next two weeks before determining if surgery is necessary.
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