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Jonathan Drouin To Begin Skating Today
I had planned to ask Jared Bednar about Jonathan Drouin this afternoon when the team holds their availability at the team hotel, but he answered my question this morning on the radio.
While the Avalanche are not skating as a team today, Drouin is going to begin skating on his own. That’s the first step in his recovery from a skate cut to his upper thigh.
Here’s what Bednar had to say on Altitude Sports Radio…
“Skating today for the first time,” Bednar said. “He’s making progress.”
The 29 year old winger has been around the team since the injury occurred, and has travelled on all road trips since it occurred on April 18. He initially had a pretty nasty limp, but that limp has slowly disappeared as time has gone on, and he’s been seen working out off the ice of late.
After the Winnipeg series ended, Bednar confirmed that it was about a four week injury. Tomorrow (May 9) marks three weeks from the date of the injury, so he appears to be on track with the timeline that was given. The reason why they had to wait this long to get him on the ice was because of the risk of infection with hockey pads. If he’s skating today, that must mean that risk isn’t really there anymore, or at the very least, it’s minimal.
In his place, the Avalanche have moved Zach Parise into the top six, and he’s filled in admirably. However, a healthy Drouin is an upgrade, and would make this team quicker and even more dangerous up front.
I’ll make sure to keep everyone posted after we talk to coach in a few hours if there are any further updates on Drouin.
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Thanks for the Update Evan, let’s hope he can come back and make an impact.
I could use an explanation about the risk of infection with hockey pads. Is it that wearing pads over the laceration for any amount of time can cause infection?
Go smell a hockey bag, you will understand. I am sure intelligent life has evolved out of a hockey bag.
Players can easily get infections like staph from hockey pads as they are breeding ground for bacteria. I once got MRSA from my knee pads, and that was just a very small wound
Yep! There have also been extreme cases like Marian Hossa who had to retire due to a skin condition that prevented him from safely wearing hockey pads
Yes. Pretty simple. An bad laceration needs to heal enough that rubbing against the pads with the sweat and bacteria won’t cause and infection.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/video/drouin-heads-to-locker-room-after-awkward-fall/
Thigh is a lie…lol
That’s not where it happened. His own skate went under his leg.
ok
Here’s an angle where you can see the right skate get caught under his left leg.
Yikes. Little to no protection where too! Cannot be that deep good he is back on the ice.
Ankle…still a cut! That’s hockey cannot wait to get him back~
Nope, it’s his thigh.
I had to login to just say.. lol
I know we’ve discussed this as a comment section unit, but with Drouin getting closer to returning, what will our lines look like? I’d like to keep Kiviranta (when he returns) with Wood and Colton, because that trio was fantastic in the limited time we got to see them. We’re obviously not sitting any combo of Nate, Mikko, Val, Mitts, or Lehkonen. Trenin and Duhaime are fantastic fourth liners and penalty killers. So does Parise or Cogs sit? Parise is probably better offensively, while Cogs is one of our most important penalty killers. I suppose Kivi could still be the… Read more »
Agree on Kivi. I think he gets a chance to reclaim his spot on the third line. My guess at the 4th would start out as Cogs/Trenin/Parise with Duhaime as the 13th forward. As we get deeper into the playoffs, Parise will probably start to wear down so Duhaime could slide in when he needs a break. Nice to have options.
I am pretty sure that MRSA is what they are concerned about. It has had outbreaks in hockey and can be much more serious than just an infection to the wound.