The Calgary Flames placed Matt Stajan on IR on Wednesday, estimating that he’ll miss about six weeks with a knee injury.
Stajan suffered the issue thanks to a knee-on-knee hit by Montreal Canadiens defenseman Jarred Tinordi on Tuesday:
Tinordi, 22, received a two-minute minor kneeing penalty for the infraction.
With Stajan on the shelf, the Flames’ injury list is growing rapidly. Calgary also recently placed key forward Mason Raymond on IR while Joe Colborne is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. The team recalled Markus Granlund from the AHL in light of all of these issues.
Stajan, 30, hasn’t had the greatest start to the 2014-15 season. He has one goal and one assist through 11 games, yet with some ailments to other key parts of this team’s offense, this is a challenging loss.
The Flames’ next game is against the Nashville Predators on Friday.
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- atwatercrushesokoye - Oct 29, 2014 at 6:39 PM
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Too bad that he’s out for 6 weeks, but it’s better than him having a torn ACL and being out for the year, so I guess there is some silver lining there. Granlund played well last year before he got injured so it’ll be nice to see what he can do over the next 6 weeks, hopefully he makes a case to stay up for good.
I didn’t get to watch the game last night, so I just watched the Tinordi hit, I actually watched it about 5 times, I was trying to see something dirty but honestly it looks to me like it was completely accidental.
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- 311sucks - Oct 29, 2014 at 7:08 PM
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sucks because last year, after watching him, it looks like he was finally finding the groove he found with the leafs. its a shame. hope he recovers fast.
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