Sunday, January 18, 2009

Injuries and Murphy

Rostislav Olesz will be headed to Philadelphia on Tuesday to see a specialist about the injury that has kept him out since the beginning of December. Exactly what that injury is, and it's severity, remains unclear. It may be a sports hernia, and surgery may become an option depending on the ruling given this week. If that's the case, we won't be seeing Olesz on the ice for another month, if not longer.

Kamil Kreps is possible to return Monday night, and if Ville Peltonen's injury is as serious as it looked immediately after it happened, the timing will help the Panthers out quite a bit.

As for Peltonen, while playing with a broken bone in his right foot last night, he was tripped up in a heavy knee-on-knee with Tampa's Evgeny Artyukhin. Ville's going to be re-examined today, if he hasn't already, so we ought to know something sooner rather than later. Artyukhin, on the other hand; his hit might be reviewed by the league. It looked intentional to me, but we'll let the league decide on that one. The Panthers got a power play as a result of the "tripping" penalty that Artyukhin was assessed, and the goal that was scored on that power play would prove to be the goal that put Florida on top for good.

Only other tidbit is that Cory Murphy is definitely on re-entry waivers. Florida recalled him from his loan to the Everblades on Saturday, and as a result, teams have 48 hours to place a claim instead of the usual 24 hour limit when a player is waived on a weekday. So we should know by noon tomorrow if Murphy is still a Panther. If he isn't claimed, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

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