Nashville could not have lost a more important player than Juuse Saros. Now the city is wondering if Saros will have time to recover from his injury in next week’s playoffs.
28.4. 19:21 • Updated April 28th. 19:38
In the NHL world, the quality of injuries is always kept low, but injuries are not spilled outside the locker room, especially during playoffs. For this reason, the Finnish watchdog of Nashville, who was injured a week earlier Juuse Saroksen little information is available on the injury.
Saros was injured when the game became more physical, and he had to leave the field. Saros’ skate apparently hit the pole somehow badly and Saros injured himself. On the next break, Saros scored. Of particular concern were the images of Sarosta being led into the locker room.
His team’s number one goalkeeper and one of the best luckers of the NHL season was unable to put any weight on his left foot at all.
You can watch the situation from the video in the main picture of this story.
Former NHL goalkeeper Karri Rämö reviewed the situation and gave its own assessment of it to Urheilu. Rämö played a total of 159 matches in the NHL. Last season, a laurel from Lahti played in Germany.
– This is speculation, but there is definitely something between the left leg and the ankle. It would seem that the injury could be in the ankle. Juuse continued the game after the situation for another minute and a half and went to the ice and up six times during that time. I think it would have been more difficult to move if the knee had an injury, Rämö says.
– There was really bad luck there if it became a more serious injury.
“Same as taking Kipper out of Calgary”
Now the hot question is: what is the quality of Saros’ injury and when will he be able to play again? Nashville have secured their place in the playoffs, so the team does not need a Finnish goalkeeper in the last two regular season matches. Next week, however, will be needed when skating against the Western Conference of Major Clubs in either Colorado or Calgary.
U.S. journalist Frank Seravallin according to the data, the first estimates of Saros’ injury were less promising. According to Seravall, it is entirely possible that Saros will not have time for the first round of the playoffs.
If that happens, Nashville will face a relentlessly tough match with the goalkeeper duo, who have played only 18 matches this season. David Rittich29, scored two really easy goals after Saros left the game and Connor Ingramilla25, has two NHL matches on his belt.
Rittich would probably be a goalkeeper, but an 88 percent rebound or an average of more than 3.5 goals scored doesn’t sound promising. Rittich has won two of the six matches he started in 2022.
– Considering that Saros has played 67 matches this season, this is a shocking bomb for Nashville, Rämö loads.
– Same as it would have taken in time Miikka Kiprusoff out of Calgary or Martin Brodeurin From New Jersey. No other team would hardly suffer losing their number one goalkeeper as much as Nashville, Rämö continues.
In Rämö’s view, a week is a short time if there is any more serious injury.
– No injury heals in a week, that’s for sure. If we were going to the finals here and there were seven games left, the situation could be different. Now it’s harder because there are so many more games left if the idea is to play for a championship.
According to Rämö, manipulation can only be used up to a certain point.
– Anesthesia spikes and others in such places are really awkward and the injury is likely to only get worse. You can do some with taping, but that again limits movement. Of course, the people of pain can play, everyone has their limits.
Goalkeepers crash like hay
Saros isn’t alone with his injury, as goalkeeper injuries are one of the nasty trends in the NHL this spring. Even today, fifteen, that is, almost every other team, has at least one goalie sick. With a couple of teams, there are even two brewers at the shipyard. There are as many as 17 goalkeepers on the side.
In addition to Nashville in the playoffs, Pittsburgh has recently lost its number one goalkeeper (Tristan Jarry) and Carolina (Frederik Andersen).
It is not very difficult to draw a straight line from the disability sum to the hard match pace of the corona years.
– The pace of the game has always been insane, but now especially. Not that much during the season the guys have time to train. Some of them are stress injuries, some bad luck, like outside hits even from the player. Yes, this means that if we continue at the same pace, each club should have two veskars who share the burden more and more, Rämö says.
Rämö criticizes the clubs for still not understanding enough of the goalkeeper’s soul landscape.
– Clubs think too little about goalkeeper training or well-being. Still, the majority of head coaches say they don’t understand anything about the hammers, which means they don’t even think about them. For example, most of the teams have not thought at all about how to get something out of the team exercises, Rämö says.