Lidstrom hurts knee in game
Team captain (and all that is Detroit) Nicklas Lidstrom injured his knee after being checked by Ian Laperriere during the first period of the Wings-Avs game. It all looked bad and it looked like he may have even hit his head on the boards too. Lidstrom has missed about 22 games in his entire career, but he didn’t look good after the hit. He will not return to tonight’s game.
If Nicklas Lidstrom is seriously hurt, I may actually cry because he is the lifeblood of this team and we cannot afford injuries to our top three freaking defenseman. I’ll update this post with more information when I have more to share.
I can bet you that GM Ken Holland is a bit stressed at the moment and you can bet that his trading deadline plans will for sure change if Lidstrom’s knee injury is at all serious.
Update: It appears the injury is not as bad as I had feared, but head coach Mike Babcock isn’t known for his accuracy on recovery times for sport injuries.
Team spokesman John Hahn said that the initial report was that Lidstrom’s injury wasn’t serious, but he was being held out the rest of the game as a precaution.
POST-GAME UPDATE: Coach Mike Babcock said that the extent of Lidstrom’s injury isn’t known yet, but that he might be out a week to 10 days.
“He’s going to be fine,” said Babcock of Lidstrom. “I don’t know if he’s going to be out a week or 10 days or what. He’s got something mild in the inside of his knee. I don’t know what the technical term is, but it just means that he’s not playing right away.”
Update - Wednesday: Lidstrom had personal commitments on Tuesday, a day the team was given off, so he is having his MRI sometime today. Hopefully, the MRI can confirm what Babcock has said about the extent of the injury. As it stands right now, Lidstrom has been diagnosed with a minor MCL sprain, but we’ll know for sure after the MRI.
“I’d say he’ll be out a week and then we’ll reassess,” Holland said.”It’s one of the first times Nick has been hurt, so when you see it, it’s a concern.”
Lidstrom was injured six minutes into Monday’s 4-0 victory in Colorado on a hit from Ian Laperriere, who checked Lidstrom into the glass and drove a forearm/elbow into the defenseman’s chin.
“Our first concern was his head, which appears to be OK,” Holland said.
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February 18th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I thought that Lappy’s hit was an easy interference call for the ref’s. Maybe thats why our Mr. Norris Lindstrom did not expect the hit, it was a cheap-shot just like the butt-end to Filpula’s face.
Cant expect the refs to get everything, they sure get the stuff that has no effect on the game though. Am I whining?
February 19th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I am obviously biased, so I came here to get a Red Wings perspective. Do you think Lappy’s hit was clean?
(And Lidstrom touched the puck, how is that interference?)
February 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I know I’m a Blue Jackets fan but my heart sank when I saw him struggling to get up. I hope he has a quick recovery.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
In my opinion, an elbow to the face is always a dirty hit so my answer is yes. Its the interference that torques me off, 4 refs no call.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I think you could call the hit either way. If you take out the forearm/elbow, it was most definitely a clean hit, but it wasn’t an elbow to the face like Pronger. I can’t say that I would probably be unsure about the call if Lidstrom hadn’t left the game, thus I’d probably have to say it was more of a clean hit than it was dirty.
All I know is that any kind of injury to Lidstrom is a bad deal so for those who said us Wings bloggers are overreacting to the injury itself, I say that it’s perfectly legit on top of the 6 game losing streak AND our other injuries…
February 20th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I wish I could have heard the discussion between Mr. Babcock and Mr Granato. We need to buy the guy with those seats a tape recorder.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
No the injury is a huge deal. Trust me I know how devastating it is to lose a great player (or three) for an extended period of time.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Ron, I would have loved to have heard what they were saying. I just got a kick out of seeing Babcock get that angry.
And yes, Jibblescribbits, the Avs have certainly had their fair share of serious injuries this season.
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