Missing at least the first month of the year, not great!
TeejMeister6
Boiiiiiiiiii
BeansTheCoach
Wish this was something he got done earlier in the summer 🙃
Woullie_26
Well that’s just awesome…
ne0damige355
Injury gnome / curse starting early this season I see.
finalmessy
F
JDSollie
>”As Jake continued to increase the intensity of his preparation for the upcoming season, it was apparent that his ankle injury was not resolving in a way that was satisfactory to he or the Penguins,” said Dubas. > >”In collaboration with Jake – his representative Ben Hankinson of Octagon Sports, the Penguins medical team led by Dr. Dharmesh Vyas of UPMC Sports Medicine, and Dr. Coetzee – it was decided that surgery would be the best way to ensure Jake would be at his best in 2023-2024.”
Milkshake Factory breathes a sigh of relief!
Woullie_26
That’s also about 15% of your goal scoring gone
chicago859
Theoden Voice*
So it begins
Dusky_Dawn210
Hey wait a second…that puts him on LTIR……
ZombiePancake45
Takes goals away in his contract year, and maybe some LTIR trickery
UnleashYourMind462
Is this some kinda LTIR move? Is Dubas playing the Tampa Bay game? I like it I like it!
JohnDesire573
Well, I’d rather have him miss the first month instead of time later in the season. I hope he has a speedy recovery!
seansotheracct
Da Beauty league claims one
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edit: spelling
ToxicSunFT
If his recovery goes well he should only be missing 8-9 games which isn’t that bad.
nizniy
Da Beauty League is dead to me.
GhostsOfVegasPast
Remember when I said that his style of play leads to serious injuries and shortened careers, and the rest of you downvoted the hell out of me for this obviously true statement?
Thechiefvii
DOC first line winger, do it sully
ilikehockeyandguitar
The injury curse is hitting us before the season has even started.
gldmj5
Guess that leaves Reilly Smith on Crosby’s wing to open.
starlightequilibrium
Huge opportunity for O’Connor – or for Puustinen to potentially make the team out of camp. Would love to see more youth in the lineup.
Tuspo
Better now than during the playoff push! Get well soon!
hammertown87
I get there’s other people in the world but like why did he take so long to get it done?
Doesn’t money talk for health care in the US? Especially a high profile athlete.
BombSquad570
Before everyone gets out the pitchforks about the summer league, I would theorize that it’s just as likely that the summer league was his first opportunity to test the progress of his rehab as it was the cause of the injury itself.
StevenJamesMoore
Hoping for a smooth recovery, and not to sound like Mark Madden, but it does seem strange that he was playing and scoring goals in Da Beauty League last week with this “nagging” injury. I wonder if he hurt it doing something there?
PhantomJB93
This seems like the bad news dump you put out right before the Karlsson trade is finalized so everybody talks about that instead
_stoned_chipmunk_
He’s set to miss a lot of time…
Noah_PTB
Welcome, Erik Karlsson!
evil_iceburgh
If this was going to happen it would’ve been nice for these symptoms to appear a month or two ago. That said I don’t think missing a month of games would be the worst thing for Jake’s body even if it sucks for everything else.
_outlaws_
Still no scoring depth. Maybe we should’ve signed some instead of a load of 4th liners
slightlysatanic
So remember how he was gonna go to Worlds and then pulled out because of injury—this is absolutely the same thing. He was probably using his games in da beauty league as test runs to see how his rehab was going, and it wasn’t doing what they’d hoped.
Let’s not make conspiracy theories about what happened or why or how. This is pretty straightforward and obvious.
Fancy-Reply5732
Dubas should offer sheet Alexis Lafrenière.
RoutineSubstance4816
This is pretty bad news. Honestly the Penguins as they stand are a pretty top heavy team again. They need to have a good start to the season to even have a chance, and being without one of their leading scorers for the first month is…not great.
RiseAbove87
Tatar is the solution here.
35 even-strength points last year. That’s 2 fewer than Guentzel, while averaging 2 fewer mins per game. He’s also far better defensively. What’s he gonna cost? 3-4M? That’s great bang for your buck.
I know he sucks in the playoffs but the Pens need to actually make it there first lol.
happyfirefrog22-
Tough break. They cannot re- sign him until they can see if he is recovered and by then he may just want to test free agency. Going to be interesting
j0n66
Keep him for the playoffs, use the LTIR cap relief to get another top 6
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Missing at least the first month of the year, not great!
Boiiiiiiiiii
Wish this was something he got done earlier in the summer 🙃
Well that’s just awesome…
Injury gnome / curse starting early this season I see.
F
>”As Jake continued to increase the intensity of his preparation for the upcoming season, it was apparent that his ankle injury was not resolving in a way that was satisfactory to he or the Penguins,” said Dubas.
>
>”In collaboration with Jake – his representative Ben Hankinson of Octagon Sports, the Penguins medical team led by Dr. Dharmesh Vyas of UPMC Sports Medicine, and Dr. Coetzee – it was decided that surgery would be the best way to ensure Jake would be at his best in 2023-2024.”
Milkshake Factory breathes a sigh of relief!
That’s also about 15% of your goal scoring gone
Theoden Voice*
So it begins
Hey wait a second…that puts him on LTIR……
Takes goals away in his contract year, and maybe some LTIR trickery
Is this some kinda LTIR move? Is Dubas playing the Tampa Bay game? I like it I like it!
Well, I’d rather have him miss the first month instead of time later in the season. I hope he has a speedy recovery!
Da Beauty league claims one
​
edit: spelling
If his recovery goes well he should only be missing 8-9 games which isn’t that bad.
Da Beauty League is dead to me.
Remember when I said that his style of play leads to serious injuries and shortened careers, and the rest of you downvoted the hell out of me for this obviously true statement?
DOC first line winger, do it sully
The injury curse is hitting us before the season has even started.
Guess that leaves Reilly Smith on Crosby’s wing to open.
Huge opportunity for O’Connor – or for Puustinen to potentially make the team out of camp. Would love to see more youth in the lineup.
Better now than during the playoff push! Get well soon!
I get there’s other people in the world but like why did he take so long to get it done?
Doesn’t money talk for health care in the US? Especially a high profile athlete.
Before everyone gets out the pitchforks about the summer league, I would theorize that it’s just as likely that the summer league was his first opportunity to test the progress of his rehab as it was the cause of the injury itself.
Hoping for a smooth recovery, and not to sound like Mark Madden, but it does seem strange that he was playing and scoring goals in Da Beauty League last week with this “nagging” injury. I wonder if he hurt it doing something there?
This seems like the bad news dump you put out right before the Karlsson trade is finalized so everybody talks about that instead
He’s set to miss a lot of time…
Welcome, Erik Karlsson!
If this was going to happen it would’ve been nice for these symptoms to appear a month or two ago. That said I don’t think missing a month of games would be the worst thing for Jake’s body even if it sucks for everything else.
Still no scoring depth. Maybe we should’ve signed some instead of a load of 4th liners
So remember how he was gonna go to Worlds and then pulled out because of injury—this is absolutely the same thing. He was probably using his games in da beauty league as test runs to see how his rehab was going, and it wasn’t doing what they’d hoped.
Let’s not make conspiracy theories about what happened or why or how. This is pretty straightforward and obvious.
Dubas should offer sheet Alexis Lafrenière.
This is pretty bad news. Honestly the Penguins as they stand are a pretty top heavy team again. They need to have a good start to the season to even have a chance, and being without one of their leading scorers for the first month is…not great.
Tatar is the solution here.
35 even-strength points last year. That’s 2 fewer than Guentzel, while averaging 2 fewer mins per game. He’s also far better defensively.
What’s he gonna cost? 3-4M? That’s great bang for your buck.
I know he sucks in the playoffs but the Pens need to actually make it there first lol.
Tough break. They cannot re- sign him until they can see if he is recovered and by then he may just want to test free agency. Going to be interesting
Keep him for the playoffs, use the LTIR cap relief to get another top 6