Montreal Canadiens hockey players are really unlucky. In the past season, their players missed a total of 751 duels due to injury, they were clearly the first in the league in this statistic. They did not start the new year any better.
In the second game, the center of the second attack was injured Kirby Dach and according to the latest news, it is really serious. According to Sportsnet’s Eric Engels, he has torn ligaments in his knee and may miss the entire season. Further examinations will reveal the exact extent of the injury.
It was Dach who, together with Juraj Slafkovský and Alex Newhook, created an attack in preparation, which received praise, and Slafkovský also improved significantly in it. He responded eloquently to Dach’s injury.
“Absolutely **** awful. It’s the worst thing that could happen after two games.”
In the video you can find the situation in which Dach was injured:
Coach Martin St. Louis has to shuffle formations and Juraj Slafkovský will have to get used to a new teammate in the attack. Newhook should move to the center, and Josh Anderson, who played the first meetings in the first attack with Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, will probably be added to the formation. Rafael Harvey-Pinard, who played the first two meetings in the fourth, will move to the first attack.
Dach is unlucky with injuries, last season he missed 24 duels due to an injury in the lower part of the body, the season before that he did not play in 18 duels in the Chicago Blackhawks jersey due to a wrist injury.
In the past season, he had 38 points (14+24) in 58 duels, he was the third draft pick in 2019, when he was chosen by the Chicago Blackhawks. The number one draft was Jack Hughes and the number two was Kaapo Kakko.
Montreal acquired him during the 2022 draft, just after selecting Juraj Slafkovski first overall. He sent first and third round picks to Chicago for him.
It was a rather funny situation at the time, since the draft was held directly in Montreal and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced it before the fourth pick of the draft, when Shane Wright, who competed with Slafkovský for the draft unit the most, was still free. The audience right in the hall had hope that Montreal made a trade to get Wright, but in the end they got Dacha.
2023-10-17 15:15:00
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