Pekka Rinne out 2-4 weeks, Nashville Predators recall Mark Dekanich

This is weird. Peks has been fantastic lately, showing no sign of injury at all.

But good for Dex. He deserves this.

To start the weekend. I gotta agree with Chris, he’s been looking great lately – If the injury was off ice, does it follow the same guidelines for being reported – or rather, specifics are not reported? Linback and Dex should be fine – I’m sure the team will rally around them as before.

didn’t Rinne struggle with some blood clots in his leg at one point? i hope that isn’t the injury they are referring too….

To backup Jeremy Smith for the Admirals.

http://www.echl.com/pickard-recalled-by-milwaukee-p167890

Man, can we ever catch a break?

On 104.5 today they said it was a knee injury, something that I’ve got personal experience with. If you bend the joint unnaturally you can do some serious damage; in lesser instances it just becomes “loose” and your kneecap can get “out of joint.” Talk about painful! You can push it back into place and immediately it feels better but ultimately you have to rehab it and everything tightens back up and within a year you’re pretty much back to normal. Since going through that I’ve also lost a lot of the meniscus that insulates the bones from rubbing against one another; we rehabbed that too but eventually I’ll have to have that knee replaced.

My sense is that Rinne’s injury is not the kind of stuff I’ve been through; if he tore something they’d IR him for the year. More than likely the joint is just loose and needs to be strengthened. In any case we are now testing our organizational strength – goaltending is our strong suit so let’s see what Anders and Mark can do! I’m really rooting for these guys.

I can’t remember ever having this many injuries in a season. Much less this early.

All these injuries, and shea weber has caused a single one of them.

.I got to go down to the dressing room area. I saw Pekka noticeably limping and this was less than 30 minutes after his winning effort in the shootout. I thought “How could he be walking so bad after playing so good?” Our seats were in the Columbus twice attack zone, so I was concentrating on our boy. I did not see anything except an effort from Renne that had the Blue Jackets fans heaping praise on him. Didn’t notice anything in the celebration either. He was really limping! Strange!