Go Ahead and Run, Islanders Hip Will Still Find You
by Dominik on Aug 8, 2011 12:29 PM EDT
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It's not much fun joking about player injuries -- it's a guy's livelihood being affected, after all -- but sometimes luck won't befriend you and all you've got left is gallows humor.
The latest published hip injury (Islanders Hip, we call it) in the Islanders' organization doesn't affect next NHL season, and its repair now rather than later might be best for all involved: Islanders 2010 3rd-round pick Jason Clark had not one, but two hip surgeries this summer.
SB Nation's Wisconsin (NCAA) blog Bucky's 5th Quarter has the details of how Clark had one nagging injury checked out -- only to learn his other hip would someday need work, too. Clark made the decision to have both operations, one in June, one in July. Now he's on the way to recovery and, hopefully, a better season skating free from pain.
Clark told Bucky's 5th Quarter the injury was limiting him "significantly" last season, so if you followed his freshman NCAA stats and wrote him off your NYI future depth chart, circumstances may beg you to reconsider.
And while we have our fun with Islanders Hip -- a fine tradition renewed by so many, from Mike Sillinger and Mike Comrie in years past to half the current blueline and goal crease -- hip injuries seem to be the running back's ACL/MCL of the NHL: From young to old to in between, everybody's hip to go under the knife.
Just be glad it's not de face.
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Related: Clark's post-draft Q&A with LHH from summer 2010.
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Comrie has it again too
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by KeithLHHockey
NHLPA says “there is no timetable” for Mike Comrie’s return from hip surgery. Career is on hold.
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I believe Comrie's career has been on hold for several years now
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Maybe Comrie was misdiagnosed
Instead of Islanders Hip, he actually had Hockey Ennui.
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Did we have 2 third round picks in 2010?
I feel really weird now because I dont remember us drafting him. Im usually good with this stuff!
Yes, and the other 3rd was a bit more noteworthy
Kirill Kabanov.
Here’s the whole list.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Yes, and the other 3rd was a bit more noteworthy
Kirill Kabanov.
Here’s the whole list.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
well this helps explain his drop off the map
but still clark is way, way down the depth chart
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 8, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions
He was a freshman, coming out of a High School that had faced tougher competition then Brocks. Wisconsin was pretty loaded, so he just didn’t see much time.
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