The Blackhawks have received some hard-luck news, as it appears they will be without one of their superstars for the next few weeks. It was announced on Tuesday morning that Marian Hossa will miss the next 2-to-3 weeks with a lower-body injury, which he suffered in a collision with teammate Nick Boynton at practice on the weekend. Hossa had to be helped off the ice and now the team has confirmed that he will miss some time here in December.
It hasn't been a great year for Hossa, thus far, already missing time this season with an upper-body injury. Hossa has played in 21 games for the Blackhawks this season, scoring 8 goals and 10 assists, giving him a reasonable scoring rate, but not a superstar scoring rate by any means. Hossa's two-way game will also be missed, as the Blackhawks didn't fare too well without him in the line-up earlier this season, going 2-3-0 with Hossa out of the line-up and the two wins didn't come against the greatest opponents, so this could hurt the record overall as well.
In the draft, this is a pretty big hit to one of the top teams in the pool, as Allan S., the current leader in the standings, will be without one of his top forwards for a few weeks now. Allan drafted Hossa in the 4th round, 61st overall, but since he has missed time with injury, his bargain status has been removed from his name, since he went into Week Nine ranked 76th overall in pool scoring and will drop right away.Three weeks out of the line-up shouldn't warrant being dropped, especially with the limited talent out there to replace him with, but that's just my theory.
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