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 2 hours 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.....

NHL Injury Viz: 2025/26 team injury breakdowns (through 7 November)

 

[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

[JoeSchmoe]

2 hours 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?

Ahem... Hockey gods. It's this kinda talk that put us where we are now.

The only way we beat this is to go all in at the trade deadline and have Inky smoke his stuff. All his stuff.

[Mr. MVP]

30 minutes ago, Indabuff said:

It's already blown up

No.  More.  Get rid of everyone.  
 

(insert GIF of Gary Oldman screaming EVERYONE!) 

 

[Pimlach]

Kulich has a blood clot issue, never heard of this as a sports injury.   Zucker with a viral infection or something.  Benson with puck to face, now foot injury.  Ellis back twinge.  Glass-man Norris gets hurt taking a faceoff.  Dahlin's fiancée.  UPL/Danforth/Kesselring/Power/Greenway/Kozak.  

How are we going to end the drought? 

 

[pi2000]

[DarthEbriate]

Either something about The Concept of Hockey Gods or that Sheevyn is playing 4D chess with the Reaper.

[msw2112]

After the poor 3 game start (with defensive injuries decimating the team), Ruff had them playing competitive hockey, and now the offense is decimated by injuries and their top player is out due to a family issue.  I think the guys are mentally exhausted and may be throwing in the towel a little bit.  I'm just not sure how much longer this lineup can keep the team within a few points of playoff position.  It's very difficult to play hard and put your body on the line (blocking shots, etc.) when the team is so depleted that it has almost no chance of winning a game.  It's truly paddling upstream.  I haven't give up watching...yet...but I just don't see how the lineup, as presently constituted, can complete against good NHL teams.  I'm not making excuses for the team's terrible play, but trying to take a realistic look at the situation.  Given the years of failure, the team's psyche was fragile to begin with, yet they played hard and stayed above water.  That fragile psyche may now be shattered.