[News] Chucky done for season (groin)

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Hells Bells

The trend started with Kucherov I believe.

Doing it once is one thing...its the Stone move because its happened multiple times with him IMO.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

It’s crazy that they can announce with such certainty that he will be out through April 17. Not really even trying to hide the cap manipulation. Any other sport he would be out for several weeks and then they’d try to work him back into the lineup when healthy.

No different than when the Oilers basically ruled out Mike Smith in the middle of summer for the entire following season when he didn't even have major surgery or anything. LTIR is a sham.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

I mean... I don't think there was a single player in that tournament who thought of them as exhibition games.

Ask the owner of the Panthers if they are happy Matt got hurt in a meaningless fight in a non-league game.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by troutman

Ask the owner of the Panthers if they are happy Matt got hurt in a meaningless fight in a non-league game.

He will probably be overjoyed if he can stash him on LTIR until game 1 of the playoffs and add a key piece or two at the deadline to play the circumvention game all the cool teams are playing now.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Maybe not smart for himself or his club team, but that tournament drastically increased hockey viewership in the States, and it had the entire sports media world buzzing about how incredible the tournament was from both an entertainment and competitiveness standpoint.

Matthew Tkachuk is a fantastic brand rep for hockey. Like him or not, he's good for the sport.

And injuring himself doing so instead of being available to play meaningful regular season homestretch games and playoff games is the most Tkachuk thing that ever Tkachukd. It would be downright hilarious if it wasn't so stupidly predictable.


Maybe one day he'll play the game with an ounce of maturity and self-awareness. Probably not.

[memphusk]

Oh you're still sour I see.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by troutman

Ask the owner of the Panthers if they are happy Matt got hurt in a meaningless fight in a non-league game.

Any indication the fight was how Tkachuk injured his groin?

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Any indication the fight was how Tkachuk injured his groin?

I thought the injury happened in the second period, but I could be wrong.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Coleman for Bennett

We could throw in Sharangovich too. To sweeten it a bit.

[Bourque's Twin]

It's a tough situation. At least they won the cup last year.

My kids had group golf lessons last night and the Flames game was on in the background. One of the instructors asked a kid if he liked hockey and if his favorite team was the Flames. The 7 year old kid said his favorite team was Canada.

International play goes very far for the sport, and unfortunately it has its risks. The Panthers are the only ones who came out on the wrong end of this one. The rest of the hockey world improved immensely, and the more popular the sport gets, the more all the players make overall.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

I thought the injury happened in the second period, but I could be wrong.

I thought so too. But people have said Tkachuk was injured in the fight so often I thought maybe there as an actual confirmation that was the case. Seems like it’s just baseless speculation.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin

It's a tough situation. At least they won the cup last year.

My kids had group golf lessons last night and the Flames game was on in the background. One of the instructors asked a kid if he liked hockey and if his favorite team was the Flames. The 7 year old kid said his favorite team was Canada.

International play goes very far for the sport, and unfortunately it has its risks. The Panthers are the only ones who came out on the wrong end of this one. The rest of the hockey world improved immensely, and the more popular the sport gets, the more all the players make overall.

Vegas lost Shea Theodore. Bruins lost McAvoy.

It's understandable why the league didn't want to participate in the Olympics.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

He will probably be overjoyed if he can stash him on LTIR until game 1 of the playoffs and add a key piece or two at the deadline to play the circumvention game all the cool teams are playing now.

It looks like they're already doing it. They'd be a couple million over the cap with the Jones trade if Tkachuk wasn't on IR. They now have another $8.5m to pay for a high end rental player.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Florida is like Vegas now; do they have anything of significance left to trade.

[Locke]

Ugh...thats a rotten deal. That injury sucks. Hopefully it's minor.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

Actually, I think it was Patrick Kane.

Definitely Kane; Hawks put him on LTIR, traded for Vermette and Timonen at the deadline, and Kane was magically ready to go for Game 1 of the playoffs.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by troutman

Ask the owner of the Panthers if they are happy Matt got hurt in a meaningless fight in a non-league game.

Tkachuk has played over 200 games in last two seasons. I don't think the Panthers are bothered much at all, this helps them more than hurts.

[Shazam]

Wait he’s hurt for real?

[McG]

Imagine for a moment that tkachuk is banged up a bit; why wouldn’t he be like everyone else. Maybe he hurt his hand, groin, whatever. And now gets a few weeks off prior to the playoffs.

Imagine that you are the panthers and could really use the cap space.

Seems plausible!

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Goriders

We could throw in Sharangovich too. To sweeten it a bit.

I’ll never understand why you didn’t get the GM job.