Marian Gaborik injured, sky blue, grass green
(Just so you guys are clear on this from the outset, you should take “lower body” to mean “groin” for the rest of this post.)
Marian Gaborik is injured again and will miss tonight’s game. (Of course, because I was considering watching the Wild game tonight and they’d prefer that I had no reason to do so.) This time, it’s an unspecified “LOWER BODY” injury.
I don’t know when Gaborik hurt his “lower body” because he was certainly playing soccer hackysack/volleyball for about 45 minutes yesterday with Andrew Brunette, Mikko Koivu, Antti Miettinen and Eric Belanger. He did have his right upper thigh/groin area wrapped with ice after the game in Atlanta when he was interviewed by me, but that’s not abnormal with Gaborik, who gets iced down after every game due to his history of groin, hip and other leg ailments.
Minnesota’s already off and running this year. Gaborik’s the fourth player to get an injury of some variety since the start of the season. Doesn’t help that the team sucks even with him. Without him, their No. 1 scoring threat, with both Gabby and PM Bouchard out, is Eric Belanger. Mhmm. Belanger.
The immediate speculation, of course, was that Gaborik had been traded. But Wild fans won’t have to worry about that for long. With Gaborik’s LOWER BODY constantly injured, no one’s going to want him, and, if they actually do, they wouldn’t be willing to trade anything like fair value for him, and thus Minnesota would be disinclined to accept any such proposals.
So Gabby stays in Minnesota for another little while here until they can prove that LOWER BODY is 100 percent trade-ready, healthwise. Enjoy the press box popcorn.
