We have gone from a 12 week recovery time, to now two full seasons.
Gabriel Landeskog and the Colorado Avalanche announced on Tuesday that the Avs captain will have cartilage transplant surgery which will keep him out for the entire 2023-2024 season. His second full season he will miss due to the knee injury.
Landeskog stated in a zoom call that retirement is not something he is thinking of and is encourage by things he has read and people he has talked to about the surgery, and he fully expects to play again when healed.
This obviously opens up some opportunity for the Avalanche in terms of allocating Landeskog’s cap hit to other players. But just exactly how will the Avs approach doing so? The answer might be more complicated than you think.
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11 Comments
Av’s need better players for next season. They need more depth!
WTF???????
Leys say he does come back in 24 25 no matter what the first game he skates out of that tunnel at ball arena the city of Denvers construction team is gonna need ti be on standby because that roof is gonna launch to the moon
Salary dump Nuke and use his and Landys salary to completely rebuild the second and third lines
And you also have a sex trafficking problem it seems , players just disappear in the middle of playoffs, hum
Crosby at the trade deadline?
Would it be soo bad to transfer captaincy? Nate or Mikko?
This video makes me wanna jump jump
Think they should act like he won’t be back prepare for the worse
Kaner will most likely have surgery, his hip is bothering for quite a while and he already said that he wants to stay in NYC (why not, greatest place on Earth to live!). The main question will be, what do owner/management want this team to achieve for next season. If they just should play as well as they can and exit the playoffs again, by all means, stick with the team as it is now, keep Newhook and the others on lines 3 and 4 that did not do a thing in the playoffs. But if management wants them to be a contender, you will not get that with adding O’Reilly (see TOR right now), JvR or the other “oldies.” They have to take money in their hands or make some good trades. So it all depends on the perspective of owner/management. For me, Anaheim offers great players like Strome, Vatrano, or Henrique, but we will see what the people in charge will decide. I will keep Gabriel Landeskog in my prayers and will pray for a full recovery and a pain free result for him.
I feel like i just had this exact same conversation about one of my favorite nba ever in Klay Thompson, talking about people missing alot of time with major procedures he missed 2 and a half years and was back to 85 percent by the playoffs last year. Modern medicine and rehab is amazing compared to Terrell Davis day, Landy will be back.
Also if we asked nicely do you think the Stars would loan us Joe Pavelski for a year?