Quite a Few More Injuries

Being as though I'm a Canucks fan, this does make the season a little worse. I know they aren't doing too much... almost makes me glad I don't have any in the draft. But it goes from bad to worse this week as both Kevin Bieksa (Peter) and Sami Salo (John B.) both hit the injured list again. Bieksa had a skate lacerate his calf, which could keep him out of the line-up for at least a couple weeks. Salo, on the other hand, took a puck to the face and it had broke his orbital bone around his eye and that is more of a long-term injury.

With these injuries, Luc Bourdon (Box 11) has now been called up from Manitoba and will join the team for their next game on Saturday night against Colorado.

Top-line forward Jason Spezza (Chris) is out day-to-day with a groin injury. Over the long lay-off for the Sens, it has turned out that Spezza didn't do enough in practice to keep it warm and tweaked it a bit. He has missed one game already and should miss the weekend games, according to several reports online. This isn't the best news for a lot of people counting on Spezza to take his cut from the big line's production.

The Washington Capitals are again without Russian winger, Alexander Semin (Dale C.), with a recurring ankle problem. Semin has already missed a boatload of games due to this ankle injury and now should miss a few more to make sure that it is all healed up before heading out on the ice again. There's nothing worse than when one of your potential top scorers cannot get healthy. The Capitals are also without Chris Clark (Box 19) with an ear injury after taking a slapshot to the head, Tom Poti (Stuart) with a groin injury, and Steve Eminger (Box 22) is yet to play a game this season with an ankle injury.

There's a time and a place for every injury. With Tim Thomas (Box 24) picking up the slack in Boston, it doesn't seem so bad that Manny Fernandez (Marcus) has gone down with a bit of a knee knock. Fernandez shouldn't be out of the line-up for too long, but the Bruins have made a call-up from the minors to sit as Thomas' back-up while Fernandez is out.

Forward Ryan Clowe (Box 8) has suffered a knee injury this season and will be off the roster on a day-to-day basis. I don't believe he was very popular on the selection sheet, but in case you do actually have him... he's probably not going to see much time in the next few days.

With most of their big guns returning this week, the Wild are now without defenseman Kim Johnsson (Box 4) with a bruised leg. It doesn't sound like much, does it? Well, apparently, it might keep Johnsson out of the line-up for a couple games, more than likely through the weekend. It's a pretty lopsided box anyways and it isn't very likely that anyone picked him up lately.


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