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Sabres Announce Kyle Okposo is out week to week with a Lower Body Injury


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2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Per Sabres PR

Upper body?  Lower body?  Old age?

He'd actually picked up his game the past 3 or so weeks.  Hope it isn't too serious.  But not too broken up that he's out of the lineup.

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13 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Upper body?  Lower body?  Old age?

He'd actually picked up his game the past 3 or so weeks.  Hope it isn't too serious.  But not too broken up that he's out of the lineup.

Lower Body Injury 

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  • Brawndo changed the title to Sabres Announce Kyle Okposo is out week to week with a Lower Body Injury

The problem with KO at this point is that he plays on the 4th line and can no longer play that role.  You want guys on the 4th line that forecheck and lay the body on defenders that will eventually cause the defender to wear down.  

When he comes back he should be the. 13th forward who fills in for injuries in the top 9 

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3 hours ago, Weave said:

Hope its not concussion related.

Tyson Jost, we hardly missed ya.

I didn’t hate him being sent down but also didn’t see any reason to other than the number of players. He is as effective as Girgs, Okposo, Olofsson, or Krebs.  

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13 hours ago, Crusader1969 said:

The problem with KO at this point is that he plays on the 4th line and can no longer play that role.  You want guys on the 4th line that forecheck and lay the body on defenders that will eventually cause the defender to wear down.  

When he comes back he should be the. 13th forward who fills in for injuries in the top 9 

Kyle is very often one of the only Sabres to throw any body checks and he plays hockey the way a proper hockey player is supposed to play, he's just too slow at this point to play the way Granato wants the team to play with all that pointless running around speed. He doesn't fit so they dump on a plodding 4th line but many times he tries to ignite things and his body really isn't suited to it any more like you say.  They really should do him a favour and trade him to a top contender at the deadline. 

I look at the Bruins and see how much mileage they're getting out of a potpourri pile of used trash like JVR, Heinen and Shattenkirk and I think if Kyle was on that team he'd probably pop in 20-30 goals and he'd be called a rejuvenated force. 

but as things stand, with the Sabres, it really doesn't matter if he plays or doesn't. They don't know how to use him or build a line for him to function on and so his career will end on the crapper with the rest of the franchise.

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