According to recent tweets from Jim Cerny of the Rangers Official website, Blueshirts coach John Tortorella has said the he has not ruled out Chris Drury for Thursday's contest against the Atlanta Thrashers. What first seemed to be a very serious injury that would keep the Captain out of the lineup for quite a while, his concussion has not taking as large as a toll on Chris as first estimated. Drury flew home on the plane with the team on Sunday, and was doing off-ice work on the exercise bike today during practice.
With this, John Tortorella feels that there is no need to recall any forwards as of now, but if need be, he would do so on Wednesday.
Tortorella also went on to say that there should be discipline to Curtis Glencross for his blind-sided hit on Drury Saturday night. I would have to agree, as Dru was looking in the opposite direction, he did not have the puck, and was not moving, all of which put Glencross at fault.
Henrik Lundqvist, who sat out on Sunday due to what is believed to be hip discomfort, is expected to return on Thursday as well. Lundqvist admitted that it was the correct decision to rest in Calgary, as he is now feeling better and close to 100 percent.
Lastly, the New York Post says that Dubinsky may be out for six weeks, longer than what Zipay reported last night.
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Update:
Andrew Gross of Ranger Rants has confirmed that Henrik Lundqvist is suffering from a thigh or groin problem, not a hip. So disregard the fact that it says hip in the above post. Will update later.....
This is an opportunity for the brass to make some badly needed changes. No one wants to see a player injured but there is nothing wrong with trying to turn misfortune into opportunity. Drury has not been playing well. He has had a concussion so it would not be imprudent to ground him. We have spare parts in Hartford some of whom are grinders and all of whom will be lost without compensation if they are not soon utilized. The team is SOFT. Coach was wrong to instruct players not to retaliate for Drury but he might have been thinking (correctly) that his roster would not stack up well against the Flames in a brawl or even a bruising contest. This is an opportunity to address that problem and Sather should do it. While he is at it, Voros should be shipped out and replaced by a gritter 4th line winger from Hartford PERMANENTLY. This problem is obvious to all; time now to act.
So much for Brashear making this team a scary one to play against, he hasn't even been playing. I think that he is not out of the lineup just because of "soreness", but rather a case of Torts liking what he sees from Byers more.
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