In a situation that went from bad to good, but now good to worse, Vancouver Canucks’ forward Micheal Ferland is leaving the NHL bubble due to an injury.
The team has announced that the veteran has sustained an injury that will force him to leave his team and the Edmonton bubble. He will not be available for the remainder of the series with the Minnesota Wild and will be re-evaluated to see if he can rejoin the team should they advance to the Western Conference Quarter-Finals.
This is not good news for the Canucks who were excited to have a very motivated Ferland back in the lineup. To make matters worse, it appears he’s not headed to Vancouver either but to his home in Manitoba. That can’t be a good sign.
The severity of his injury is not known. All that is known is that it appears not to be short-term.
Ferland, 28, is in his first year of a four-year contract signed with Vancouver last summer. But, he’s spent most of his tenure with the team nursing injuries, specifically concussion issues from an incident in early November. He missed most of the Canucks’ regular-season games, playing in only 14 games. He returned in the play-in rounds and got in a heated fight. That seemed to suggest he wasn’t feeling any ill effects of his injury issues.
What’s The Injury?
Early reports were that maybe a blocked shot led to a lower-body injury, but TSN has reported that’s likely not the case.
In Game Two Ferland was held to just four shifts and 2:36 TOI, a sign that something might be amiss. The early speculation is that Ferland’s concussion struggles have popped up again and that could be why he’s been deemed “unfit to play”. Obviously, if there is more news to report, we’ll update the story.
If this is concussion related, there will be a lot of fans calling for Ferland to consider retirement.
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