A hard hit on Thursday night landed Dallas Stars forward Jason Spezza on the Injured Reserve with an upper-body injury. There was no real timetable discussed, when it came to when the team expected their productive second line centre to come back to the lineup, but he'll be nursing this injury for the obligatory week, at the very least.An awkward crunch from Colorado's Francois Beauchemin ended Spezza's night, as he was favouring his left shoulder on the bench, before leaving the game entirely and not coming back. It looked a lot more like discomfort than anything, so take that as you will. Might be a week, might be worse... thankfully, it isn't his head.
Speaking to the productivity of Spezza this season, he finished Friday night's action (where he didn't play) in 48th spot in the overall scoring standings, as he has 18 goals and 40 points in 52 games with the Stars this year and he would have been valued as a 2nd round pick in the draft, if it was re-done today.
Striking Spezza from Tony's roster is not good for him, as he goes into Saturday with the least amount of projected games this weekend with 10 and without Spezza, there is potential to fall even further in the standings, despite making some moves in the Waiver Draft. This injury doesn't appear to be too serious, so hopefully it won't hurt his side too badly.
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