Eklund: Kucherov Injured. Could Require Surgery. Can Tampa survive? Buzz@1

TB will survive like last time, Kucherov is now a part time ringer.

1st world probs for $2,000 plz Alex/

lol @ "can Tampa survive" ! Ek is the master at subtle trolls. Well played.

Eichel to TB for playoffs, (E5) ?

It’s all speculation at this point. He hasn’t even seen the specialist yet.

So.......Eichel to tampa

So the source said if he requires surgery he'd expect him to miss some time moving forward. That's shocking stuff.

Also it's playoff berth, not birth. Haha.

So the source said if he requires surgery he'd expect him to miss some time moving forward. That's shocking stuff.

Also it's playoff berth, not birth. Haha.
- HockeyBuzzed

It’s not even a source. He just read an article and a Twitter post.


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@Erik_Erlendsson
Hearing the initial word on Nikita Kucherov is not positive and surgery could be involved. Assuming that's accurate, I'd expect him to miss some time moving forward, should know more later today #GoBolts #TBLightning

Here we go again...

Eklund: Kucherov Injured. Could Require Surgery. Can Tampa survive? Buzz@1
- Eklund

they will just trade for Phil Kessel and Kucherov will magically be back for the playoffs and Tampa will be a 90 millions dollar cap team again

Eklund: Kucherov Injured. Could Require Surgery. Can Tampa survive? Buzz@1
- Eklund

Just another opportunity to circumvent the cap

Sorry to hear he's injured...but excited for the eventual meltdown on this site when he returns from the LTIR in the playoffs.

to hell with those tax-dodging nouveau-riche chumps

So the source said if he requires surgery he'd expect him to miss some time moving forward. That's shocking stuff.

Also it's playoff berth, not birth. Haha.
- HockeyBuzzed

according to Ek, this site will have a 'reberth'

Hmmmmmm? Injured all last season. Hurt again. The NHL really needs to take a long hard look at CAP CIRCUMVENTION!!! F$&@ING JOKE!!!

Here we go! Over the Cap Champions again? Kucherov out till playoffs, trade for Eichel and ...................

Eklund: Kucherov Injured. Could Require Surgery. Can Tampa survive? Buzz@1
- Eklund

u mean like last season? 🤦🏿‍♂️

lmfaooooooooo🤣

What's with all this naive talk about cap circumvention? Last year seemed obvious. They delayed his return to fit the cap.

But there is no immediate benefit to Kucherov being out now. If they were gaming the system they would have had someone go on LTIR this summer and allowed them to keep Goodrow or Gourde or Coleman. But what's the advantage now? Unless your theory is he misses the next 80 games, so they trade futures for a star player, and then Kucherov comes back for game 1 of the playoffs? Seems a little presumptuous.

In Jon Coopers press conference today he said Kucherov is not a day to day thing. He’ll be out a while. Just don’t know how long. Waiting to hear more before giving a timeline.

This was followed up by another beat writer for the Lightning who said they are waiting for him to see the specialist this week.

Looked groin related in the video, I assume the team will say more after the specialist meeting.

Maybe they should trade for Eichel to help them get through the Kucherov injury

He will be able to have a new T-shirt printed for him: “I only play in playoffs”

He's played a regular season game, so Tampa will NOT be able to circumnavigate the cap come playoffs. His cap hit will count.

We've seen this movie.

He's played a regular season game, so Tampa will NOT be able to circumnavigate the cap come playoffs. His cap hit will count.
- gstclairinc

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