Lidstrom Had Surgery, Other Injury Updates

by Casey Richey on Jun 14, 2009 9:28 PM CDT

Apparently the reason Nicklas Lidstrom missed the two games in Chicago was because of surgery on his nether regions, more specifically, his testicles. No wonder the Captain struggled at times, and that's not an attempt at making excuses for the loss. The report is that Lidstrom suffered an injury following a spear from the Blackhawks' Patrick Sharp in Game 3. Ouch, hopefully he makes a full recovery in the offseason.

Pavel Datsyuk apparently had a charley horse from Game 2 in Chicago, the same game his foot was injured.

Brian Rafalski had a herniated disc, the reason for his abscence in the Anaheim series.

Dan Cleary had a "severely pulled groin" but still played. The last three can be found here from Ansar Khan of mlive.com

By the way, this may be old news at this point but I just now got around to looking at stuff like this so apologies if you already know.

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Just to many injuries this time around

Sharp is a giant jackass. I know it`s not our thing to fight, but he should get something in return next year for going after the captain.

In the grand scheme of things, the pain of life is not worth it.

by adamgreuel on Jun 15, 2009 3:00 AM CDT reply actions

Anyways, I was at a friends house watching the game and left immediately after the buzzer sounded, I refused to watch any celebrating by the Pens and will never do so. It will probably only last until we see a million crappy commercials with Crysby liftin

In the grand scheme of things, the pain of life is not worth it.

by adamgreuel on Jun 15, 2009 3:08 AM CDT reply actions

Oops, as you can probable tell I posted this in the wrong section lol.

In the grand scheme of things, the pain of life is not worth it.

by adamgreuel on Jun 15, 2009 3:09 AM CDT up reply actions

The injuries are no excuse

All playoff teams have injuries, and even Chris Osgood said this.

by KDawg on Jun 15, 2009 3:39 PM CDT reply actions

Ouch.

Can you imagine playing in the Stanley Cup finals after having your nuts speared and then operated on (guys)? I got hit lightly there with a football one time, and it made me puke. I can’t imagine how Lidstrom felt. Hopefully the surgery worked and relieved some pressure, but it did look like he was playing quite gingerly. Not quite the same play we’ve come to take for granted from number five. I hope the offseason gives him plenty of time to recover. Stay off of your nuts, Nicklas!

by Mike Braun on Jun 15, 2009 5:01 PM CDT reply actions

Pittsburgh Pathetic Pretenders that stole the cup

Come on, everybody but idiot penguin fans saw the cheap calls and non calls and the game 3 give away…Wings got robbed and “bettie” bettman, little whiner cry baby should be fired and same with all officials in game 3. Wings had it in 5. Bye Bye baby sid cry baby crosby……what a joke………..

by Steven DRW Forever on Jun 16, 2009 7:14 AM CDT reply actions