Injury Bug Continues to Bite
January 12th, 2009, 8:30 am
Latest news is Lukowich needs another surgery for a sports hernia, and he’ll be out three weeks. Word is they scheduled it now so some of the recuperation time falls over the all star break, and Luko may only miss seven or eight games.
But that adds Luko to a fairly long list of players that have missed considerable time this season. Nabby, Mitchell, Cheech, JR, and Shelley have all missed time, and Pavs was playing hurt there for a while. It’s nothing like Washington, which (if I remember correctly) had six or seven regulars out back when we played them in November, but it still shakes things up. Luko is one of those vocal guys on the ice and on the bench, constantly rallying the guys, jabbering about one thing or another. Every team needs at least one guy like that. With JR out too, who’s going to speak up?
This might be my time to sound like a Chicken Little here- I know grier picked the Sharks to lose to the Islanders at home nine days ago. Now, with Calgary and Detroit coming up later this week, both teams that beat the Sharks’ ass pretty badly in the last month, could this mean the Tampa Bay game is a trap game? Tampa just beat the Ducks last Friday, and they may boost their confidence further with a Kings win tonight. I’m not go so far as to calling a loss here, but watch out.
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Every time we think this is the case, the Sharks always win. We’ll see…
With Luko out, does Semenov see his time once Shelley comes back or will Josliin continue to play? You know what I think…
I am not sure why you guys seem to want to predict the first sharks home loss… Who knows maybe they will actually go the whole season without a regulation loss…? The way this team has played at home I think it is actually possible.
There are more small injuries than you know about, the sharks just put those guys back out there all taped up and expect them to play,
a little ice will do miracles, but the injury keeps nagging until it finally blows out totally. A positive attitude would go a long way on the blog, everyone is so freakin negative, the sharks prove you all wrong and keep skating and playing fantastic.
I think the fact that Mike is pointing out that Tampa is on a streak and the Sharks are playing banged up isn’t anything to throw back in our face….
We’re anything but negative. Sarcastic…at times. But negative, um..no. For “the sky is falling”, please read Ryan Garner at hockeybuzz.com. Today’s highlight includes him giving Semenov a midseason grade of “A” for his outstanding performance.
So they beat the Ducks.. Who haven’t beat the Ducks this season? Heck, even Vancouver beat Detroit in Detroit this year. By the way, there is no streak going here – Tampa lost the previous game in Phoenix.
Let’s see how they do in LA tonight, but I think Tampa has as high of a chance of beating the Sharks, even without Luko, JR, Shelley as they have of actually winning President’s trophy.
We’re again facing the worst crap this league has to offer, and Sharks will not allow that game to even be close, especially considering Tampa will be tired while Sharks rested, and will again be facing the home crowd after a road trip.
Tampa- win 3-2
Calgary- win 5-2
Detroit- win 4-2
Vancouver- lose 3-1 in reg. 😉 oops
Semenov is basically a forward at this point, permanently.
“We still want to continue that forward experiment,” McLellan said. “He might get some more time on the blue line. But in my mind, I’m looking at him as a forward.”
I’m not sure what to make of that. He’s not afraid to get into a fight, but he’s about as good at it as he is at playing defense. The entire Semenov proposition (you know, that Semenov is an NHL calaber hockey player) continues to confound me.