Jiri Kulich to miss significant time with blood clots

[Mr Peabody]

16 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I've been mulling this over. Kulich, Dahlin, Benson, Norris all out. You're heading towards a top 10 and potentially top 5 pick, do you retool now to be ready to go next year?

Hire a new GM and let him bring in a coaching staff before a complete explosion.  If retooling I’d see what I can get for TT, OP, and BB.  Build an identity. 

[PASabreFan]

I mean is it time to call Greg House? Bad batch of vaccines? Who all availed themselves? Just the players?

[kas23]

8 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

Didn't Cody McCormick hang em up for the same reason?

This would be a fine time for the GM to go out and make a trade to try to save the season, but I also feel like GMKA is a dead man walking and he's not the guy I want making any moves. The season feels like it's over and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.

I think it’s depends on where that clot is and how long the player expects to be on anticoagulation. If this is to his pulmonary tree or threatening his brain, he’ll be on anticoagulants for an awful long time. Someone playing a contact sport at the professional level shouldn’t be on anticoagulants. 

[oddoublee]

22 minutes ago, tom webster said:

What’s with the blood clots with NHL and NBA players all of a sudden? Kulich is at least the third NHL player this year and I know that “Wem” and a few lessor players were diagnosed in the NBA last year.

When Chris Bosh first had to retire due to them it seemed like an anomaly, now it seems rather common.

Zach wheeler in baseball too

[Rasmus_]

It's like we're the can that never stops being kicked.  Even w/ out a #1 center, we've been somewhat competitive this season, and now this.   This is beyond being cursed.

[Mustache of God]

1 minute ago, Rasmus_ said:

It's like we're the can that never stops being kicked.  Even w/ out a #1 center, we've been somewhat competitive this season, and now this.   This is beyond being cursed.

Coupled with Dahlin's fiancée's situation it's simply unbelievable. 

[matter2003]

Holy guacamole...Buffalo is cursed this year...Bills and Sabres just getting hit with serious injury after serious injury without any let up.

[PASabreFan]

I mean, what could KA even have done?

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

45 minutes ago, Mustache of God said:

Didn't Cody McCormick hang em up for the same reason?

This would be a fine time for the GM to go out and make a trade to try to save the season, but I also feel like GMKA is a dead man walking and he's not the guy I want making any moves. The season feels like it's over and it's not even Thanksgiving yet.

 

35 minutes ago, kas23 said:

I think it’s depends on where that clot is and how long the player expects to be on anticoagulation. If this is to his pulmonary tree or threatening his brain, he’ll be on anticoagulants for an awful long time. Someone playing a contact sport at the professional level shouldn’t be on anticoagulants. 

Yes, McCormick's career ended due to blood clots, which was a tough loss for the Sabres at the time because he was really just starting to find his game. The clot started in his calf and worked its way to his lung.  

I hope Kulich makes a full recovery and is able to successfully treat the condition.  

Edited 1 hour ago by SHAAAUGHT!!!

[Gatorman0519]

Looks like an accidental tank.  

[Brawndo]

This maybe the only way to end this curse 

[mjd1001]

And this is likely to get worse as the next few games go on.....

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[LTS]

10 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

This maybe the only way to end this curse 

Yeah.. because it's clear Peyton Manning and Josh Allen accomplished nothing.

[Indabuff]

1 hour ago, Mr. MVP said:

Time to blow it all up. 

It's already blown up

[Slack_in_MA]

Good Lord

[Ctaeth]

At least we still have Tage.  That is until he finds the wet mat just like our boy Kevin Kolb