Cam Janssen Out For Two Weeks

by russkidan on Oct 10, 2010 12:50 PM CDT

After Janssen and Brad Winchester tried to sandwich a Flyers player (resulting in a fight with Scott Hartnell), Janssen ended up having to leave the game in the 2nd period.

Reported a couple of minutes ago on the Twitter:

Janssen out two weeks with concussion and sternum contusion. - @jprutherford

Cam janssen will miss 2 weeks with concussion and sternum injury - @andystrickland

Video of the hit below. It was a vicious hit, and I wish Janssen the best. Guy was doing great last night, and I hope that he comes back and continues what is going to look like a great season.

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soooo

i would hope the blues call someone(s) up question is, should it be a d-man that almost made the team on his preseason play, or a forward which is the obvious injury hole created for 2 weeks.

honestly we got a 3 game trip after monday afternoon and then we back home, the blues could get away with doing nothing

I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth ... while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 10, 2010 5:25 PM CDT reply actions

Call me heartless but...

seeing the goofy smile on freshly concussed players cracks me up. It’s like a newborn fresh outta the womb.

“Wow! look at the pretty world in front of me.”

Back in the day they just told you to “Walk it off.”

Here’s hopin CAMSMASH is back in action soon.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Oct 10, 2010 5:34 PM CDT reply actions

P.S.

My new nickname for Cam is “Bricks”. Cuz he comes down on them poor opposing players like a ton of em.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Oct 10, 2010 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions

Ryan Reaves coming up

According to the Blues.

I gotta say, I think Cam is going to be out a lot longer than two weeks. His jump is to take punches to the head — can’t do that with a brain injury.

I think Cam’s out at least a month.

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by averagejoe on Oct 10, 2010 5:42 PM CDT reply actions

A no duh move, really

You lose your tough guy, you call up your reserve tough guy. Since outside of Reaves, we only have 11 healthy forwards, Reaves will get his first NHL start Monday. Hope he does well.

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by Novacain on Oct 10, 2010 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Was hoping to see Della Rovere

but Reaves is probably the more experienced player in that role. Hopefully Winchester can atone for his sins with some production in the time Cam’s out.

by Perrowned on Oct 10, 2010 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions

SDR just played his first AHL game...

It wouldn’t surprise me to see him spend the entire year in Peoria, acclimating to professional hockey.

On the other hand, Reaves’ promotion could be a good thing for the Blues. Reaves has 35 points in three AHL seasons; 0.21 points per game isn’t much, but it dwarfs the 0.08 points per game that Janssen scored when he was in the minors. Reaves isn’t a scorer by any stretch of the imagination, but he apparently doesn’t need the arrow taped to his stick telling him which end goes on the ice.

It’s kind of ironic that the two most marginal NHLers on the roster both managed to be involved in the same collision, especially since they both had to go well out of their way, and both managed to draw charging penalties for their boneheadedness. Hopefully Janssen recovers quickly, and it wouldn’t bother me a bit if Reaves plays well enough to keep the roster spot.

by BleedBlue42 on Oct 10, 2010 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions

winchester has to go

I didn’t care too much for him before that hit and now every time I see him all I’ll think about is him knocking cam out for weeks when cam looked to be having a great game.

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by Maverides on Oct 10, 2010 5:48 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

I told me 8yo daughter about Brad running into Cam smash, knocking him out of the lineup for 2 weeks. You know what she said?

“Brad stinks.”

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by DanGNR on Oct 10, 2010 7:56 PM CDT reply actions 8 recs

rec'd

like Kopitar’s grill

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by ilikeboyes on Oct 10, 2010 8:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Could not agree more

have a smart daughter there

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Sextus: You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here?
[taps his head]
How do you fight an idea?

by Crapchesterian on Oct 10, 2010 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions

I think

with two quick Recs, I might have made this a fanshot instead… lol

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by DanGNR on Oct 10, 2010 9:37 PM CDT up reply actions

even if you made it now

I’d still Rec it harder than Winchester’s fan reputation

"What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?" Billy Conn

Sextus: You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here?
[taps his head]
How do you fight an idea?

by Crapchesterian on Oct 11, 2010 2:11 AM CDT up reply actions

Winchester the bluenote
You’re bringing me down
You charged and then mischecked
now cam has left town

You could have done something
like learned how to skate
but you didn’t do nothing
and now for cam its too late

Now everyone knows
just how much we needed our goon
but you just rang his bell
and he left the ice far too soon

Winchester the blue note
You’re bringing me down
we stood and we watched as
you plays made us frown

Oh-bo-de-o-do oh-bo-de-o-do
Oh-bo-de-o-do de-do- duh

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 11, 2010 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions

I think we all forget that this time last year when we started to slump, cam was the only forward that showed heart, and honest to god scoring potential. Last night he had 2 prime chances, a few good hits, and an idiot to the head. sigh

He raged at the world, at his family, at his life. But mostly he just raged.
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by Icion on Oct 10, 2010 9:08 PM CDT reply actions