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Breaking News: Hasek Is Brittle

by IwoCPO on 10/26/07 at 06:00 AM ET
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Of all the ailments, it had to be a hip.  It had to be the malady most closely associated with the elderly.  My only question is did Dominik Hasek fall down and break his hip? Is that the irritation? Does he have a clapper now?  What the hell is “hip irritation”? 

Here we go.  Fire up the train boys and girls because the long season of uncertainty begins tonite with young Jimmy backing up your once and current favorite whipping boy (well…second favorite) Chris Osgood. The bunnies are in a fervor, while the rest of us fall back into a routine we’re all too comfortable with.

That’s right kids, after one year of calm, we return to your regularly scheduled programming.  It’s the Detroit Red Wing Traditional Crease Clusterfu*& (DRWTCCF).

Khan(!)

“It’s nothing major,’’ Wings general manager Ken Holland said of Hasek’s ailment. “But, it’s early in the season. It’s bothering him enough that we’re hoping with a few days off it’ll go away.’‘

Yes.  Us too.  We’re hoping it just “goes away”.  Because, and I’m only 38 so I don’t have hip problems yet, I guess that’s what they do.  They just…go away.  Whew.

Meanwhile, back at the CF, Jimmy Howard is exactly where we expected him to be for exactly the reason we knew he’d be there.  There was exactly zero chance we could have expected two consecutive painless seasons with Hasek.  We’re only ten games in and we’ve already seen two different injuries, a knee and now “hip irritation.” 

Kulfan

“This early in the season, we’ll give him a few days off here and hopefully the rest will help. We don’t think this is anything major. Dom says it just doesn’t feel right.”

Newsflash: at 43, I’d bet more than a few things don’t “feel right.”  Hip irritation, hmmm.  Hip irritation.  I’m…nah, I’m not buying it.  Hip bone’s connected to the groin bone as far as I’m concerned.  And if it’s the groin bone then you know where this leads.  Yep, the charley foxtrot, the annual DRWTCCF.

But all is well. All is well. Osgood’s played better than Hasek in the early going.  He’s looked sharp.  He frolics and the girls love him. We’re happy because that’s why we have him, the best backup in the league.  And up comes Jimmy on his big old steed (Tenacious D reference), fresh from GR, to join his pal Igor who might want to take a shot in net because he definitely can’t put one IN the net.  Another subject.

How soon before we see Howard?  Saturday against Vancouver?  Sure. 

All for nought?  Perhaps.  Hasek may be back next week since it’s only a “hip irritation” and we just want it to “go away” and it just may because it just doesn’t “feel right.”  Good to know.  Good to know. 

Not me. I see it coming, sense something brewing, see it on the horizon and I’m starting to recognize the signs: an old fashioned Detroit goalie controversy.  Because, you know, nobody throws a goalie controversy like a Deetroit goalie controversy.  Buckle up.

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