alt="LA Kings Insider with Rich Hammond" />The case of Wayne Simmonds’ mysterious knee injury might never be solved. Three days after it happened, nobody seems to know how it happened, although Simmonds apparently tweaked the knee sometime during Thursday’s game against Dallas and didn’t feel the symptoms of it until the following afternoon.
The good news for Simmonds is that, apparently, he will only need to have some cartilage “snipped” tomorrow, after which a timetable for his return can be set. Here’s what Terry Murray said about the procedure.
MURRAY: “It’s only a matter of some cartilage. That’s it. There’s no hidden agenda here. It’s just clipping back some cartilage. They’ll be able to give us a timetable once they see what it’s like.”
Murray said he still has been unable to determine when and how the injury happened.
MURRAY: “I had a meeting with him. We talked in my office yesterday. There’s nothing in the game. He left the building, walking, and everything was good. It just happened on the day off. Friday late afternoon. … I don’t even think there’s any swelling there. I’m not the medical staff, but I looked at it and he looked pretty skinny to me. He looked as skinny as ever (laughs).”
that’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard but on a brighter note, Jonathan Bernier posted a shutout today and Rich Clune picked up a goal and an assists, call him up DL!
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Get well soon! Um, faster than that actually…
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Good that they’re snipping not repairing! Quicker return on removal than repair.
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It takes getting in there to see the extent though. Sometimes ligament damage isn’t visable till you are in there, but I certainly hope it’s as “minor” as they are saying…
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was Wayne the “un-named” player with the lower body injury a week or two ago?
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@ Belexes
Yeah, they really won’t know the extent of the damage until their in, but intent to remove a portion is still more hopeful for time period. Fingers crossed everything runs smoothly.
@ Harry
Ooh, very interesting. I never thought of that!
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Damn! A guy with Babe Ruth sticks like that, I’m just glad he wasn’t broken in half. I hope he gets some weight on those legs while in rehab.
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Meant to acknowledge the guy’s playing awesome, like a monster. Hope he’s back soon.
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Well, this should be a lesson to those who were impatient for some kind of definite knowledge and even accusing the Kings of being deliberately secretive. Sometimes you just don’t know until you know, and if you say too much before you do know you’re just getting people worked up over nothing.
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Over all, the Kings HAVE been somewhat secretive. They really haven’t been this forthcoming unless it’s a long term/surgery situation.
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@Harry- youre probably right!
Very suspicious that he’s claiming “i dont know when it happened”…AKA “i hurt it last week and didnt have to tell you!”
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Belexes,
It isn’t a ligament that is damaged, it is a piece of cartilage and a bit of the cushion in there. I, personally, have torn Meniscus and have been dealing with it for years. He will be fine, they are just going in for a bit of maintenence and he’ll be back in about 2-4 weeks or sooner depending upon what kind of exercises they put him through afterwords.
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Holly -
every team in the league is just as secretive with injuries…not just the Kings
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Cluner got a Gordie Howe
@tantrum4
Yes, they are. But the point was that the poster couldn’t claim that telling us that Simmer was having surgery on his knee was proof that the Kings haven’t been secretive.
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Could that be from any kinds of activities off the ice that Simmonds does not want to talk about it? Wooo … mysterious. Some pro sports organizetions prohibit their players to do specific activities such as skiing. But they can’t stop very personal activity I suppose.
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i hate to say this but……he probably injured himself off the ice and the team is covering it up…very common for sport teams to do….
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funny goldie….on the same page at the same time…lets be honest here …you dont leave the rink walking fine and cant walk the next day…it had to happen off the ice….
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Hope Simmer heals quickly, he is clearly a very important piece of the puzzle and we need him on the ice!
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Yep neil. I understand Simmonds is a youngster and may have some other interests in his life. But not only for Simmer but other youngsters too, I want them to be responsible for their personal life. Imagine the worst case scenario happens to em like Nick Adenhart with Angeles. I feel chill in my spine by just thinking about it. Please, be safe whatever you guys do.
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Yes, it very well could have happened off the ice. But it also could’ve happened on the ice. I personally tore my meniscus dancing. The next day I was a little sore, but by no means incapacitated and went to classes as usual. That was a Friday and I spent most of Saturday being lazy and not doing anything. It was Saturday that it really began to swell and become painful and by Sunday it was necessary for me to go to the ER.
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The real question is will Hammond divulge or do we need to go to outside reporters like Helene Elliote Come on Helene what caused Simmonds accident ???
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The insulting suggestion that I’m hiding information set aside, I already asked if it was a hockey-related injury, yesterday, and was told yes.
Question: It’s a hockey-related injury though, right?
MURRAY: “Yeah, it’s hockey-related. But again, that’s the problem. It’s not anything we can look at, because he finished the game, obviously, and everything was going fine. It’s just something that came on, and it’s a problem for him.”
If you think the Kings are lying, you’re entitled to that opinion, but I’m not going to hire a private investigator to follow Wayne Simmonds around.
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Don’t worry Rich…these are the same people who feel it’s their right to know if any player takes one poop per day, or two.
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I got a feeling they’ve known about simmons injury for a while now, but decided to wait till near the break for this surgery.
These kind of surgerys are typically very very minor and I doubt he’ll be out much longer than the break.
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I know that people always hope for what they don’t have but I couldn’t help and watch the Dallas game and think that’s the perfect kinda game that you’d want someone like Simmer in
well as Mick Jagger said you can’t always get what you want ( he also couldn’t get no satisfaction as Tone Loc pointed out)
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Guys,
Hate to make this injury even more cryptic, but an athlete can get a partial meniscal tear, play on it awhile, then a tweak doing something as innocent as getting out of the shower can make it much more painful and result in swelling.
Non-athletes can walk around on torn menisci for years. I have a grade 2 or 3 medial meniscal tear that is just fine while walking, but sitting in strange positions can torque it and just standing up later can cause a problem.
Simmonds’ injury happened whenever it happened. Assuming its locking up on him now, just snip the torn fragment, clean out the joint and off you go. Football players come back really fast, with their braces, spurt acceleration and such. I’ve never been a hockey player, but I assume much more healing is needed to get back to close to 100%.
Simmonds’ game is acceleration and power. Anything limiting that would be a great hindrance to his effectiveness. I think both he and the team think this is lucky to have happened as early as it did, not too far and BEFORE the Olympic break. As long as he follows orders and doesn’t do too much too soon he’ll be back slamming opposing D-men all over the ice just like before, probably in late January or just after the Olympic break, at WORST.
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Could it have been this play?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OahAONu7VpU&feature=player_embedded
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Thanks for posting link “Telos”.I think you hit the nail on the head! I really think thats what happened…could be wrong, I hope he gets better! I can’t ever remember saying a Kings player was injured celebrating after a win! LOL…We need you back Simmonds! Get better!!
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@Telos you just took this blog to a new level…
and to think I was pretty sure Wayne was hurt by someone on the grassy knoll…
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if I had a dime for every time my meniscus
wait .. what?
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Great work telos. Definitely could have been right there. Celebrating a bit too hard. Hope he’s back soon…
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I was at the Phoenix game and saw TM double shift him. He looked pretty good on that assist to Moller. I’m not sure I believe this is when he was hurt.
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Why all the heavy curiosity over the hows and whens of Simmonds’ injury? Does it somehow change anything that matters, such as when he’s coming back and what needs to be done to correct the problem? All of the speculation, the intense rumination, the barrage of questions, it all seems irrelevant to me. I don’t really care all that much how it happened. I just want to get a timetable and then focus on the guys that are playing. There’s not anything inherently wrong with all of this fascination, it just seems to matter not one iota.
I mean, going so far as to speculate that the information is being closely guarded and withheld from all of us important people who comment on a blog? Seriously?
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Maybe he got hit by a car on going 35mph on the 105…
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Whoever acts super surprised about this injury (let alone accusing Rich about I don’t know what) is crazy and doesn’t know much about sport and knees. This sounds to me like a typical knee overuse injury. They come back later, when the body is not hot anymore. IMO Wayne will “feel” this knee for the rest of his life – I am feeling it for 9 years now, no matter how much rest I took and what kind of therapy I did. But then again my knees are weak, hope that his aren’t.
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I think some have been reading too much into the title Rich gave this post (He got hurt…somehow) and took it to mean Rich wasn’t buying the official explanation.
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Well put Datacloud.
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Simmonds has been one of our best players so far this year.. and for all those saying the Kings and Hammond are covering stuff up are just idiots. We don’t need everyone in the league to know all of our injuries. It also protects our team and our players.. And for those who don’t kno anything about knee injuries it’s very possible it happened at the game and didn’t show signs until later, especially with cartilage damage.
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Get well, get well soon we want to get well
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