The 4 Nations Face-Off has produced some thrilling, high-stakes hockey that can culminate in a must-watch championship game between fierce rivals the United States and Canada at TD Backyard on Thursday night time.
It has additionally produced a possible nightmare situation for the Boston Bruins.
Bruins defenseman and Workforce USA star Charlie McAvoy is considered week-to-week after struggling an damage to the AC joint in his proper shoulder within the People’ recreation towards Finland on Feb. 13. McAvoy ended up enjoying by way of the damage final Saturday in Workforce USA’s first conflict with Canada in Montreal, however developed an an infection in his proper shoulder that required him to be transported to Massachusetts Basic Hospital on Monday night time.
On Wednesday morning, the Bruins put out a statement noting that their very own medical employees evaluated McAvoy upon Workforce USA’s return to Boston on Monday and found the an infection in addition to a “important” damage to his AC joint.
Whereas it appeared odd that the Bruins would launch such an in depth assertion on McAvoy — and never Workforce USA, which technically is accountable for McAvoy throughout the event — Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman believes the assertion was supposed to ship a message.
“I believe the people who find themselves the angriest is the workforce, the Bruins,” Friedman said on the Sportsnet’s 590 The Fan on Wednesday night time. “In the event you learn their assertion at present, they make it very clear that they’re sad with how this all went down, that they don’t really feel that their participant was given the correct remedy.
“It appears now that McAvoy was initially injured within the opener towards Finland. There’s a play the place Joel Armia takes him onerous into the publish. I don’t know if he received a (painkiller) shot or one thing. I don’t know precisely what occurred, however he performed Saturday, it appears to be like like, with far more extreme an damage than he was initially led to consider, and all people was initially led to consider, which makes his efficiency all that extra spectacular.”
Friedman added that McAvoy was “in a bit extra ache” Monday when Workforce USA returned to Boston, and when he was taken to the hospital, the Bruins’ medical employees “realized the damage was extra extreme than believed or initially identified.”
After the Bruins mentioned as a lot of their assertion Wednesday, their displeasure with how McAvoy’s damage was dealt with grew to become clear, mentioned Friedman.
“I keep in mind yesterday when it was the Bruins and never Workforce USA that introduced that McAvoy was out (versus Sweden), there have been folks saying, ‘How come the Bruins, whose GM (Don Sweeney) is the GM of Workforce Canada, are saying that Charlie McAvoy wouldn’t play?’
“After which it grew to become fairly clear that it’s as a result of the Bruins had been extraordinarily sad with the way in which this had been dealt with, and that they felt that on this specific case, McAvoy didn’t get the correct care.”
Workforce USA — whose normal supervisor is Minnesota Wild GM Invoice Guerin — is utilizing the Wild’s medical employees for this event. And as 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Ty Anderson pointed out, the Bruins have a historical past with Minnesota’s medical workforce stemming from a disagreement over the health of Patrick Maroon after Boston acquired him from the Wild at the very least 12 months’s commerce deadline.
In abstract: It is a difficult state of affairs that seemingly pits the Bruins towards the medical employees of Workforce USA/the Wild. And so long as Boston’s greatest defenseman stays sidelined for a workforce that is combating for a playoff berth, the controversy possible will not go away.
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