[Newsbot]

Title: Canucks' Brock Boeser leaves game against Flames with foot injury
Category: Sports
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2017-12-18 01:05:58
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

Darn...

And here I was thinking things looked good for the Canucks to have a suprising year.

Oh well...

GM, Jim Benning keeps saying all the Canucks need is a # 1 center or a puck moving, star defenceman who can run the power play.

2018 draft looks good.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/spor ... -november/

[Strutz]

They were just saying on the noon news that he will be assessed today. Hopefully for him it is not an injury that will keep him out for very long.

If it was determined to be really serious right away he wouldn't have been seen after the game on crutches.

[N_Fiddledog]

I'm on board with Dave Tomlinson and the TSN crew the way they describe the situation in this podcast.

https://www.tsn.ca/radio/audio/tomlinso ... d-1.947098

[N_Fiddledog]

Looks like you're the more correct one, Stutz. We can get optimistic again.

The glass is half full:

$1:

“It’s a relief.”

In three words, Jim Benning echoed the emotions of not only the Vancouver Canucks, but the entire provincial hockey populace Monday. When a CT scan earlier in the day revealed that Calder Trophy front-runner Brock Boeser suffered a bone bruise — and not a feared foot fracture — after blocking a Mark Giordano shot Sunday, it turned angst into anticipation.

Knowing the hotshot rookie will soon resume his remarkable National Hockey League season is a boost to the goal-starved club, a fan base that has been entertained, engaged and enamoured with the humble winger and, of course, the general manager.

“He felt better when he got up this morning and it (injury) is more day-to-day than week-to-week for his return,” added Benning. “We can’t afford to lose a player like that.”

There’s no immediate timeline for Boeser’s return, but he could sit out Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday games and be ready for the first post-Christmas test here on Dec. 28 against the Chicago Blackhawks...

http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nh ... t-fracture

[Strutz]

I was just the reading the similar article in the Canucks site and was going to update this thread but you beat me to it Fiddle!

Definitely good news. He may miss a few while he rests the foot but that's a hell of a lot better than surgery, recovery and possible future difficulties as something like that never really goes back to being 100%.

[Hyack]

Some good news (hopefully)for the Canucks.......

$1:

Brock Boeser will be a game-time decision against the Montreal Canadiens at Rogers Arena on Tuesday with a bone bruise in his left ankle.