On the leg? Clint Malarchuk frowns upon your shenanigans. (Pic linked due to copious amounts of blood.)

Damn you Maxx! I spent too much time looking for a picture.

Look at how the rest of the team has treated his goaltending abilities, then tell me he doesn't deserve to sit and let the team stew until they get their shiat together.

Wow - five days to a green light?

I guess that means he will only be out 3-5 weeks.

Ward's the lucky one. He got out.

I had to press refresh, i thought i somehow loaded last week's page.

What a freak injury.

MaxxLarge: Burn_The_Plows: Damn you Maxx!

Sorry. :P I just read this expecting a far more gruesome injury, given the precedent set for spurting skate-slices in the league. I mean, come on...a cut on the leg? Unless it opened up his femoral artery to the point where he was geysering gore all the way back to the box, rub some dirt on it and keep skating, Nancy. This is the NHL, for chrissakes, not some pickup Ice Capades BS. If you're not bleeding by the third period, you're getting paid too much.

But seriously though, even through all that padding he still managed to bleed through along the ice.

Interesting not was that he doesn't wear the thigh guards? Or is it the knee riser?

My goalie pads don't have a knee riser, and I got hit by a puck just above the knee when I was down. I couldn't walk for about 2 days. I have to wear knee pads now until I invest in a pair of leg pads with risers.

But interestingly enough, if he doesn't wear those, I'm supprised he hasn't had more injuries.

I bet he will wear them now.

swahnhennessy: Ward's the lucky one. He got out.

This.

I watched the Canes last night against my better wishes and wished I hadn't. I was thinking of going to a game as well, but I'd probably see better hockey staying home and going to see the Charlotte Checkers (ECHL).

This has officially ended my fantasy hockey season.

/Kovalchuk, Savard, Sedin

UNC_Samurai: Look at how the rest of the team has treated his goaltending abilities, then tell me he doesn't deserve to sit and let the team stew until they get their shiat together.

Preach it. If they put half the heroics into a normal game that they did into protecting Legace from shots, we'd be on top right now.

The cut is down into the muscle supposedly. I'm sure he'd like to play but he wouldn't be able to at a competitive confident level until it heals.

Also, I don't think Rick Nash uses that new skate cut but even if he did it wouldn't be contributing to worse cuts. Sharp is sharp.

That wasn't a cut. Someone hit Cam Ward in the groin with their skate and they mistook his vagina as a cut.

MaxxLarge: Coming soon: Clint Malarchuk, Richard Zednik and Adam Burish all make a special trip to his bedside to point and laugh and call him a pussy.

...don't forget Dapuzzo

jdog71: MaxxLarge: Coming soon: Clint Malarchuk, Richard Zednik and Adam Burish all make a special trip to his bedside to point and laugh and call him a pussy.

...don't forget Dapuzzo

And Börje Salming.

Came for the Malarchuk reference, satisfied

/carry on
JC

Mind-bottling, isn't it?

Drakin020:

It was the inner thigh, there's no padding there
just hockey pant material -> socks/pants material -> sport shorts for the cup

those knee things are to cover the gap between hockey pant and leg pad when a goalie is down. this was higher up and to the side

I remember a Wings game where Neil Wilkinson fell down, Bob Probert jumped over him to avoid falling, and nearly cut Wilkinson's nose off.

It was so bad that Probert actually skated back over to check on the poor bastard.

Hiro's Protagonist: Drakin020:

It was the inner thigh, there's no padding there
just hockey pant material -> socks/pants material -> sport shorts for the cup

those knee things are to cover the gap between hockey pant and leg pad when a goalie is down. this was higher up and to the side

I always thought the girdle covered that area though. I mean, I guess it could have been to the side of the knee riser where the girdle stops?

I didn't know he even skated.

RIP Cam Ward

And the sharks are #1 again....


...and they'll also be #1 when it comes to bowing out of the playoffs

Neigne: This has officially ended my fantasy hockey season.

/Kovalchuk, Savard, Sedin

I've renamed my team to the "Colorado Handi-Crips" and have a picture of Jimmy and Timmy from Southpark as my logo.

/At one point or another (through draft, waiver, or trade): Malkin, both Sedins, Gonchar, Osgood, Arnott, Vishnovsky, Souray, Neal, Jovanoski, Morris, Hejduk, Gagne, Toews, Richards, Ott, Hemsky, Kessel, Letang

On the leg: Bad
On the neck: Really really bad.

Neigne: This has officially ended my fantasy hockey season.

/Kovalchuk, Savard, Sedin

On the bright side Kovalchuk should be back real soon.

I bet Clint Malarchuk shows up at his bedside and calls him a pussy. Man got his carotid artery slashed and was back on the ice in practice 4 days later, and actually playing a week after that.

/yeah yeah, Maxx and Burns...
//can't be reiterated enough
///BTW, blood involved in this link

I've got Ward on my fantasy team and I was glad he got injured (in the context of that game). In fact, I'd remarked a few days prior to him going down that I wished he would. He was killing me.

I've also lost Franzen, Markov, and Booth (big deal). But it doesn't matter as everyone in my league (or any league, for that matter) is dealing with just as many injuries to the same caliber of players on their own teams.

Which brings up the fact that so many guys are injured this season. It's like all the star injuries usually reserved for a season happened in the first month.

notmtwain: Did the new skate-sharpening method contribute to the injury?

New skate-sharpening method takes hockey by storm



/// It sure looks like the edges have finer points on them to me.

My son has had it done. He says its a bit different and takes some getting used to, but you really can glide easy on that new cut, but it loses the edge sooooo fast that you need to have them re-sharpened after almost every skate. Not really worth it to get used to it, then go out of town to a tournament that doesn't have that sharpener, and then have to go back to traditional.

Drakin020: I always thought the girdle covered that area though. I mean, I guess it could have been to the side of the knee riser where the girdle stops?

I only saw the replay once, but I thought it was the inner thigh not too many inches from his family jewels

I'm no goalie, and I could be wrong with custom equipment out there, but since the cut went through so deep it makes sense there was no padding in the way

What getting cut by a skate MAY look like.

M Bison: What getting cut by a skate MAY look like.

I knew someone couldn't resist posting that. Please don't do it in the future. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

You know, it cuts like a knife

I'm still reeling from losing Savard, Lucic and Gonchar in one week. I was doing ok until then.

TSN had a photo of the trail of blood Ward left going to the bench, it was nasty. Couldn't find it.

/didn't have Ward

What's a canes cam?

Izigaul: That wasn't a cut. Someone hit Cam Ward in the groin with their skate and they mistook his vagina as a cut.

Haha. That was ever so clever. Too bad you're talking about a guy who has never been accused of being a pussy. So actually, clever isn't the right word....how about "farking moranic"? How does that work for you?

I don't have anything against fanhouse, but fanhouse.com is not nhl.com. Get the source right subtard.

calm like a bomb:
Haha. That was ever so clever. Too bad you're talking about a guy who has never been accused of being a pussy. So actually, clever isn't the right word....how about "farking moranic"? How does that work for you?


Wow you're a sassy little biatch

I heard it was very, very close to his junk. Yeah, you're wearing a cup, but still: that's no blade territory.

whereisian: I'm still reeling from losing Savard, Lucic and Gonchar in one week. I was doing ok until then.

TSN had a photo of the trail of blood Ward left going to the bench, it was nasty. Couldn't find it.

/didn't have Ward

I have him in the Farker's on Ice league. I'm scrambling for goalie starts at this point.

Franzen
Toews
Ward
Vanek

I am so far in last place I think I'm first.

Another one I remember as a kid was Borje Salming's 250 stitches.

Theropod76: Another one I remember as a kid was Borje Salming's 250 stitches.

Meh..

Wanted for questioning.

/the Malarchuck photo still gives me goosebumps

Since were talking about fantasy league injuries, at one point I had:

Blake
Gonchar
Markov
Luongo

all on the IR.