Martinek Out 4-6 Weeks
October 14th, 2008 by murph
The bad news just keeps flowing around here like the cheap beer in Pittsburgh. Saturday night at the home opener Radek Martinek got hit and stayed down in the first period. It was at the opposite end of the ice from where I was sitting. It looked like he got sandwiched by two Blues players, or he was expecting the hit to come from one side and got popped from the other. Either way, he went down, left the ice and didn’t return. The Isles haven’t said a word about him since, until this afternoon.
New York Islanders defenseman Radek Martinek will be out four to six weeks because of an unidentified upper-body injury suffered during a game last weekend, the club said Tuesday.
Martinek was knocked out of the Islanders’ home opener in the first period Saturday night after he absorbed a hard hit behind the net. He was evaluated by doctors that night and didn’t play in New York’s 7-1 loss to Buffalo on Monday.
The Islanders revealed the length of time Martinek is expected to miss, but still declined to provide any information about the injury.
P.S. This NHL injury disclosure policy is a J-O-K-E! JOKE! JOKE! JOKE!
