With Fredrik Sjostrom likely to miss much of camp after off-season shoulder surgery, Hanson may...

With Fredrik Sjostrom likely to miss much of camp after off-season shoulder surgery, Hanson may also get a shot at earning time as a penalty killer.

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!.
Seriously, let’s hope he wasn’t the only thing holding our PK together, I doubt it, but we’ll see. Also this makes the whole which youngin’ will make the team out of camp debate more concrete, looks as though someone has to now.

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by Plea From A Cat Named Felix on Aug 31, 2010 11:20 AM EDT reply actions

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

was my first response too

Waiting on the Dave Nonis era.

by PassivelyTruculent on Aug 31, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions

me too

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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by Karina on Aug 31, 2010 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Darth Vader, too

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by Jo4nny on Aug 31, 2010 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Let's not get carried away

First of all, it only says he’s likely to miss camp, so probably won’t miss too many games.

Second, I thinking we’re putting way too much emphasis on Sjostrom. Sjostrom was clearly one of our better PK guys, but the biggest difference in our PK post-Jan 31 was goaltending. Let’s say Sjostrom misses 10 games. He averaged 2:14/gm SH last year. That’s 22:30 of PK time to replace. The Leafs gave up 5.3 PP shots/gm last year, and were shorthanded about 5:30/gm (I got this by adding up total SH TOI of their D, dividing by 2, then dividing by 82—doing the same for total TOI gave me 60.4, which sounds about right with OT). So they gave up about 1 shot/min shorthanded. Let’s assume Sjostrom’s absence means 0.25 more shots/minute (which is a ridiculously high assumption). That means 5.6 more shots over 10 games due to his absence; or rounding waaay up, 1 goal in 10 games.

Bottom line: this is not something to be stressing about, folks.

by The '67 Sound on Aug 31, 2010 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions

counterpoint

we suck

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by pevans on Aug 31, 2010 1:19 PM EDT up reply actions

also

We stress about everything.

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by Karina on Aug 31, 2010 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions

OH DEAT GOD WHY DONT WE KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH CHRISTIAN HANSON YET?
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 31, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions

That’s not a counterpoint, that’s a point.

That is, we have enough other things to worry about without worrying about Sjostrom (maybe) missing 10 games. Hanson or whomever can adequately fill his 10 minutes/game.

by The '67 Sound on Aug 31, 2010 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions

i was this close to burning my season opener tickets and just walking away from the season all together. thank god he wont be gone too long.

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by Matt_Roberts on Aug 31, 2010 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Giguere

had a lot to do with it… his PK Save Percentage was ridiculous.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Sjostrom had shoulder surgery? News to me.

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by SkinnyFish on Aug 31, 2010 11:23 AM EDT reply actions

Me too.

Damn you MSM for missing this one until now.

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by nhlcheapshot on Aug 31, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

the Sun will be reporting on this on Thursday.

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by blurr1974 on Aug 31, 2010 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions

File this under “Why Bloggers should be given access”

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by Karina on Aug 31, 2010 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions

He played

17 shifts in the last game of the season, so I don’t remember when it happened.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2010 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Here we go

Sjostrom’s shoulder finally healthy: Maple Leafs RW Fredrik Sjostrom returned to the lineup on Thursday against the Devils after missing six games with a shoulder injury. He had no points in 14:48 of ice time and finished at even. He has no points in his last five games.
(Updated 03/18/2010)

That was on March 18th… it must have bothered him until the end of the year and he had the surgery after.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Sir Winston Churchill

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.

by Steve Burtch on Aug 31, 2010 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions

damnit shoestorm

Rule #20

by JaredFromLondon on Aug 31, 2010 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

he never had a choice.

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by Jo4nny on Aug 31, 2010 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I was looking forward to seeing sjobacca on opening night… hopefully he isnt gone too long

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by Matt_Roberts on Aug 31, 2010 1:06 PM EDT reply actions

Why is everyone assuming he’ll be missing any games at all? The wording is “likely miss most of camp”… the way I interpret that is that he will probably return before the end of camp, and will not miss any games. Of course, with anything medical there are no guarantees on recovery time. But it’s not like it says “Sjostrom to miss first month of regular season, possibly more.”

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by CanadianMaple09 on Aug 31, 2010 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions