Honestly, you just can not make this stuff up; this is unfolding into a pretty good drama. Some might say that this is poetic justice that Marian Gaborik is doubtful for the game against the Wild. I would love to be at the game and be able to boo Gabby as he skates out on the ice at the Xcel Energy Center.
NEW YORK — Minnesota Wild fans anticipating the return of erstwhile superstar Marian Gaborik on Friday night likely are in for a disappointment.
The first-year Rangers right-winger will travel to Minnesota for his team's only game in 2009-10 at Xcel Energy Center, but a leg injury threatens to ruin the homecoming.
Gaborik injured his leg late in Tuesday night's 5-2 victory over Phoenix, a game in which he scored two goals and added an assist.
He and the team emphasized the problem is unrelated to his hips or groin muscles, which have plagued him most of his career. Gaborik will not play tonight against the Islanders and his status for Friday is doubtful.
Gaborik, the Wild's first draft choice who played eight seasons in Minnesota, signed a five-year, $37.5-million contract with the Rangers after Minnesota declined to make him an offer upon becoming a free agent July 1.
In the Big Apple, he is off to his best start in seven years. Gaborik is tied with Anze Kopitar of Los Angeles for the league lead in goals with 10, and his 18 points are second only to Kopitar's 21.
The always colorful interview that is New York Ranges head coach John Tortorella, I wonder how many times Torts has taken Larry Brook’s head off.
Gaborik came out of the trainer's room at the Garden late Monday night and said the injury was unrelated to the hip and groin ailments that have bothered him in the past, and John Tortorella stressed that again Tuesday while saying that he wasn't overly concerned with the injury.
"It was a little sore, so we just kept him off the ice," the coach said. "It has nothing to do with any of his (past) injuries."
Asked to confirm whether it was a lower-body injury, Tortorella said, "It's a body injury."
Read more: [New York Daily News]
That is why it's horseshit that they forced Wild fans to buy ticket "packages" in order to attend this game.
ReplyDeleteWhy this team's management continues to crap all over its fanbase is beyond me.
Darn it, Goon, now I'm all riled up.
I don't know if I would pay much for a Wild ticket this season or not, unless they were playing the Bruins, Sabres, Canadians or devils.
ReplyDeleteGoon, you had to buy a ticket for a second, shittier game to even buy a single game ticket to this game.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait til their sellout streak ends.
If I wanted to see the Bruins play I might have to buy another ticket to a different game? I love the NHL but this this years product is worse than last years.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Bruins before they became good again. The shutout streak will be broke.
Not the Bruins, the Rangers. But who cares?
ReplyDeleteI don't know that is along ways to go to watch the Wild play anyone.
ReplyDeleteI would have to drive 300+ miles to watch the Wild and then come back and watch another game some other day when I can watch them in my living room. I would rather drive to Duluth to watch the Dogs and the Sioux play two, stay in canal park at the Comfort Suites, eat at Grandma's or the Angelinas and drive home.