That ####ing sucks man. Obviously a really tough situation, but hopefully it was like one of those clean breaks like Stamkos and it heals up proper. Those breaks/dislocations that happen at the joints I don't think they ever heal properly.
Brutal. An effective Bouma is important to this team. And don't forget how many goals he scored for the Flames last year. They will needto be replaced too.
It's horrible for a warrior like Bouma to go down, but I don't feel as though this injury will see the team back at all. Granlund, Shore or Poirier could plug in some minutes and give Backlund a few more and we'll be fine
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Brutal. An effective Bouma is important to this team. And don't forget how many goals he scored for the Flames last year. They will needto be replaced too.
16 goals and 34 points to be exact. Frolik has been good thus far, but guys like him and Backlund and Bennett need to step up and replace Bouma's points.
I'm not panicking about Backlund yet, but he's left much to be desired. Needs to step it up, and in a hurry too.
Brutal. An effective Bouma is important to this team. And don't forget how many goals he scored for the Flames last year. They will needto be replaced too.
Luckily I think Frolik/Bennett will replace Bouma's goal totals, tough luck for Lance though.
Hope he can make a speedy recovery and help give the team that extra push for the playoffs.
i'm obviously not thrilled about this, but that aside how tough exactly is lance bouma? he tried to ride this thing out on the bench for god's sake! pretty sure i would be in "most pain in my life" mode if that was me.
It's a funny bone to break. I broke mine on my left leg. Rode my motorcycle home, and drove myself to the hospital in a manual transmission car to get it checked out. It ached like crazy, but wasn't blindingly painful.
I knew something was wrong, but was pretty shocked when I was told I broke my leg, after I just walked from the regular parking into a hospital. I was lucky my fracture wasn't displaced. I thought I had just sprained my ankle real bad.
16 goals and 34 points to be exact. Frolik has been good thus far, but guys like him and Backlund and Bennett need to step up and replace Bouma's points.
I'm not panicking about Backlund yet, but he's left much to be desired. Needs to step it up, and in a hurry too.
Bouma himself was unlikely to replace those points. Realistically the biggest things we lose here are heart, hits and shot blocks, which will hurt, but mostly in unquantifiable ways.
Weird injury. Not at all what i thought the injury would be when seeing the replay of it.
I will be interested to see who they call up. I would assume Jooris gets back into the lineup. For a call up do you call up a guy like Granlund or do you call someone up that your more comfortable sitting in the pressbox.
Option 1: Put Bennett on wing, bump up the centers
Option 2: Put Jooris on wing
I think we'll get a recall of one of the older farm hands. Whoever comes up is probably going to be sitting so I'd rather it not be someone who would benefit more from the puck touches. Grant/Hathaway/Hamilton maybe.
From a pure "win now" perspective I'd probably put Bennett on the wing to improve the winger depth
Do something like:
Gaudreau-Monahan-Hudler
Bennett - Backlund - Frolik
Raymond - Stajan- Jones
Ferland - Jooris - Bollig
