Here’s the status report, from Terry Murray, about injured defensemen Matt Greene (lower body) and Davis Drewiske (shoulder)…
(on Greene, who had an MRI on Monday…)
MURRAY: “It was the best scenario possible. He has the green light to get into the off-ice workouts. He can ride the bike and continue with that part of it. He’s going to be able to get on the ice and do flow skating. That’s good news. The time frame, again, is probably close to a couple weeks. What I’m happiest about is that it’s the best case scenario.”
(on Drewiske…)
MURRAY: “I don’t have any timetable on it, but he is closer. He’s doing all the work with the rehab part of it. It’s improved dramatically. I can say that. He’s going to, I think, be ahead of the schedule, if we did report one when it did happen. He’s going to be able to get on the ice here pretty soon, with the practices, and get in there at the end of the skates and really dig in and get a lot of good conditioning and be ready to go whenever he gets the OK from the medical staff to be able to play. It’s a real good scenario for us. He’s a hungry guy. He’s going to push it as hard as he can, off the ice, to get the rehab work through. In my mind, he will be back sooner than expected.”
To clarify, the original timetable for Drewiske, as announced by Murray, was approximately two weeks. That was one week ago.
“Take your time, but hurry up!”
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How funny is it that one year ago we would not have even thought about Davis being on this team, and now we are all begging for him to come back from injury.
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Any update on Justin?
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There’s really no update to be had, Harry. The timetable is 12 weeks, and he’s only been out two weeks so far. Long way to go.
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Thanks for the quick response Rich.
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Maybe while Greene rehabs his lower body injury, he can get Ivanans to give him lessons on fighting. For a big body, Greene’s an embarassment when it comes to this aspect of the game.
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While not a good fighter, I think it is a little heavy to say an embarrassment. Personally, I don’t want to see Greener fight as you never really want one of your Ds in the box for 5 minutes. But I understand that as one of the leaders on this team (both vocal and by example) he is going to back his teammates when he feels the need to do so.
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Is it Gay for me to have a man crush on Greener?
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