Kronwall’s injury worse than expected
BTJ favorite Niklas Kronwall will be out with a shoulder injury (a sprained clavicle) longer than expected. Originally, he was expected to miss ten days and hoped to play in the game on Feb. 9th against Toronto (the team his brother Stefan plays for). Unfortunately, a more recent MRI has indicated that the injury will need more time to heal and the team is currently sitting 17 points ahead in the Western Conference and 15 in the NHL over Ottawa. The team has the luxury to not rush Kronner back to play.
“Pretty much skated to get the pace going, get my heart going again. Just did a little puck handling, felt so-so,” Kronwall said. “We’ll see what the doctor says. He took a look at the MRI the other day, said it’ll probably be a little longer than 10 days. I was hoping to play in Toronto (Saturday), but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.”
He did skate today for the first time since injuring his shoulder albeit by himself before the team practiced.
“It’ll probably be a little bit longer than 10 days,” said Kronwall. “We’ll just have to go from how the rehab goes and how it feels on the ice, try to think positive and go from there. … Obviously you don’t want to do anything stupid to re-injure it and miss more games.”
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February 5th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
You know, he’s played surprisingly well this year after a slow start. I’m just a little bit worried that he’s made of glass. He’s hurt all the time and it seems like he’s always out longer than they say he’s going to be.
Then again…we are slaughtering the rest of the league, so they might as well take some time.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I think now that we’ve seen how the Wings play without Kronner, he certainly was making more of a positive impact than I think us fans realized. Hopefully, he’ll be returning soon & that will have been his last injury for the season.