Gaborik done for the season?

This is the latest in the Maryanne Gaborik saga. Michael Russo is reporting that Gaborik might have to have surgery on this left hip and basically ending his season. That also means Gaborik will walk and the Wild won't get so much as a bag of puck for the often injured prima-Donna.

Doug Risebrough has really managed this situation well. Now not only are the Wild not going to sign Gaborik now they aren't going to get anything for him in return. Wow, that is an impressive way to manage a NHL hockey team. What does this mean for the Wild: good bye playoffs; good bye season. Welcome to mediocrity.

I’ve been digging at this all day and felt I was getting close enough to this being the truth that I got in touch with Lynn again.

This time, Lynn confirmed to me that over the next two days, the Wild is examining all of its Gaborik options. The most likely, it appears, is for Gaborik to have surgery on what Lynn described as a “hip deficiency.”

Last May, Gaborik had surgery on his right hip to repair a torn labrum. This is to his left hip, Lynn said, and he reiterated it’s a deficiency that involves a lot of things, including his labrum.

If Gaborik has surgery, he can begin skating in a matter of weeks, Lynn said, but he’d be out until at or near the end of the season.

This is catastrophic, and I’m not talking about what this does to the team this season.