Boyle out indefinitely

Bad news on the Dan Boyle front.

According to a news release issued by the Lightning, the wrist that supposedly had healed enough to allow the All-Star defenseman to play more than 28 minutes on Saturday will need a second surgery. He has been put on injured reserve and is out indefinitely.

Of the three tendons that were operated on after a freak lockerroom accident with a skate sliced his wrist, only one is fully repaired, an MRI showed. One has re-ruptured, and another is being held together by the stitches.

Stay tuned.

"Dan will be consulting with a number of hand and wrist specialists recommended to him by the Lightning medical staff, after which he will be scheduled for additional surgery on his wrist,'' GM Jay Feaster said in the release.

Matt Smaby will be recalled from Norfolk to take the roster spot.

(Pictured: Dan Boyle, right, battles for the puck with the New York Islanders' Radek Martinek. AP Photo. Click to enlarge.)

Comments

[Tim A]

I'm certain that there will be no trades until the new ownership is established. The current ownership doesn't care if the ship is sinking and are just now looking to dump this whole mess. When the new ownership arrives at the beginning of 2008 then we might see some changes near or at the trade dead-line but the way things are now, everything is in limbo. This is not good for the Bolts this season and is most certainly discouraging for us fans. No one wants to pay $200.00 a game to see their team get its guts stomped out. If Torts isn't able to find a way to get the mojo back in the team real quick-like we will be looking forward to next season pretty soon. With this perpetual pathetic goal tending, I'd look to other alternatives such as bringing back Eddie Belfour for a season or bring up one of the prospects from the minors. It surely can't hurt at this point and might help in the long run. Goaltending will sink this season right down the tubes if something isn't done real quick.

[leo]

Besides, we already have Halak in Ramo.
Give us Price!

[leo]

Hear, hear.

[ajax]

No one is taking Richards for 7.8 mil
No one is taking Richards for 7.8 mil
No one etc etc, oops I did it again.
So many bloggers have all of these trade scenarios, but no team is going to give up probably three starters for one player. Only we like that scenario. Times 3, I might add.

[bear]

Not for Richards, big boy, he's a non starter.

Gotta to be Vinny sad to say and Leo's right what's 2-3 years. Forget Halak get Price or Huet.

With the right trade,the team obviously misses the playoffs this year, but can start 08 with a great goalie, a very top draft pick in a solid 08 draft and 8 million in free agent spending money..no brainer in my eyes.

Should be also be able to get a quality young roster player for FA Boyle.

The alternative is that sooner or later Bolts lose Vinny/Marty for nothing and the franchise moves.

[bigboy]

team990canada.com,mtlcanadiens,traderumors
And by the by, nothing on Price.

[leo]

What?! Where did you get that?

[bigboy]

New scoop.
Halak, Ryder, Kostitsin.
for:
Roy, Richards.

[leo]

A slew of superstars? Like who?
Richards? With his dough, we won't lose him. Boyle? Doesn't look good now anyway, but maybe. St-Louis? I think he would stay even though his production might drop consistently until then but maybe.
Plenty more where they came from.
Waiting 2-3 yrs is better than waiting forever.

[Mike13]

By the time Price would be ready to lead us to a championship (2-3 years), we'd loose a slew of superstars.

Even if he were to try, Feaster is so completely inept at trades that he couldn't manage giving up the Big 3 in exchange for Price.

[leo]

I couldn't have said it better, Bear.
This is why I'm being a pain in the butt on the subject. We might, and probably will, lose Vinny for nothing. Why shouldn't we get ours?
We have a chance to get our hands on the Priceberg, fer Pete's sake!
We have to do this.
I agree the transition might be difficult. Every birth is.
After that, allow me to present the NEW Tampa Bay Lightning, with Carey Price to backstop us to future championships.
Believe it. This kid is IT.

[bear]

Come on guys..why would anyone want Ritchie at that price? The guys a power play specialist, great, but a minus player 5 on 5, a minus player that hates to be hit. Not a chance.
If his salary was 4.8 maybe.

Montreal can sign Vinny for nothing for 09
Getting him a year early might be worth giving up price to them or it may not. Maybe they keep Price and send Huet.

There wont be a bonanza of players coming back to the Bolts.

This franchise is in it deep with zero depth.

[leo]

I'm cool with that.
But would the Habs be?
They have goalies up the ying-yang. Denis might as well move to Russia because there's not even any pine to ride in Montreal.
7.8$mil Brad would find himself under a severe spotlight, could he handle it? (Should he decide to waive.)
The draft pick, curiously, might seal the deal.
I don't know if it would be enough to sway them.
Lecavalier would definitely sway them. For Vinny, I'm confident we can get Price plus another young up and comer or two. They'll give us anything for Lecavalier. Anything.
Everything.

[T. Carstens]

How about this trade? Richards, Denis and our draft pick for Price? That frees up a good chuch of $$. Maybe we can take that $$ to re-invest in our D.

Hope for the best with Boyle. Great player!

[Tim A]

Unless the Bolts can do it with what they have here and in Norfolk, they ain't gonna gitt'er done this season. I'm looking for some major stinkum around December through the trade deadline. If it were me I'd think about keeping Vinny and try building around a Rock Solid Goalie, if they can find one. Problem is its too late right now, no one will deal until their sure they got you by the short hairs. The self imposed salary cap is royally screwing the Bolts right now to no end.

[bigboy]

lol, good one, keith.
Big surprise for Dan. Oh, he's not 100%? Really?
Agree we must trade. Is there any way that Price deal is doable WITHOUT giving up Lecavalier?
Check highlites on NHL.COM, oct27, 2007. MTL/PIT. This kid is for real!
But anyways, I'm hearing Bryzgalov's name a lot and I don't see it happening. Feels like a Denis scenario all over again. I think he would flounder here. Bad deal.
What can we do for Price?

hope they MRI that thing BEFORE he steps out onto the ice again.

[Jim]

keith, u beat me to it: what do u call the guy who finished last in medical school? Doctor

wow, ready for malpractice? hope it came with a warrantee

[keith]

Ever stop to think that 50% of all Doctors finished in the bottom half of their class!

[Mike13]

Did the Dr. happen to work at the VA hospital?

[Kathy]

Time out people, the DOCTOR cleared Boyle. Mulligan is NOT a doctor and he follows the doctors recommendations so lay off the training staff. They have the hardest job, they have to follow the doctor's recommendation while the coaching staff breathes down their necks (and not the doctor's!).

[keith]

Agree with Nan. Unless there are any MD's contributing to this blog, I seriously doubt the trainers and doctors would have knowingly MADE Boyler return with the knowledge that the tendons were not fully healed. Also ponder that a pro athlete would most likely not compromise his entire big (short lived) dollar career by returning too soon in the early part of an 82 game season. Hindsight makes it easy to criticize. If Torts is given the all clear on one of his big stars, who is he, at that point, to question the player's fitness. It is very unfortunate for Danny ( and us fans) but maybe some people heal faster than others. Danny obviously is a slow healer.Meantime the business goes on.There's no shot at trading Denis. As in any business, all the best ones are already working. Want another netminder, got to steal one away with big dineros. Don't think anyone is dealing right now.
There is no where to go but up right now. Still a long way to go. The D is young, the GK shaky but it is what it is. Really doesnt matter how many the other guys put past Holmer or Denis, as long as Vinny et al. put one more by the other GK.
Really, really trying to keep the faith.
Go Bolts

[Nan]

Wow, what a bummer for Danny! I wish Danny the best of luck with the next surgery and recovery. It obviously didn't heal as fast as they all expected. How many people after all manage to slice three tendons in their wrist by a sharp skate? The doctors and trainers most likely have never dealt with this before. They also in the past have if anything been very careful in putting the guys back on the ice. Maybe Danny was the exception, who knows. On the plus side, the guys didn't do too badly without him last night. Now if only Kuba can stop putting the puck in our own net.

[Tim]

Say what you want.. They rushed Dan back too soon.. Now he is out for who knows how long..The team is in a MAJOR funk..
they played their hearts out last night and get kicked in the gut in the last minute.. The hockey Gods are cruel...

[Hockey Chic]

As most know I am not a big fan of DFB however finding out that there is a second surgery has to be tough and I wish him nothing but the best. I sincerely hope that pushing his recovery did not permanently injure him.

That being said I would love to know what Torts problem with DJ is. He must have done something way back when to put a permanent mark on his record cause I think the guy can play as well or better than smaby.

While I am all for the underdogs how bout we take another look at a goalie. Name Homer the #1 starter and work a trade somewhere/somehow for Denis.

Over all last night I thought the guys fought hard and played well. Antyone realize the winning goal was the one that Kuba knocked in when he fell on homer. Hey kubes may want to go get those brakes checked out ....

Lets get er done in our house tomorrow night. Lets Go Bolts....

[Mike13]

That is horrible news for Boyle. I just knew that he wasn't ready. We all knew after his first game back. Why the heck Tortorella played him for 28 minutes a few nights later is beyond me.

I completely disagree with Feaster's move to bring Smaby back up. Janik played very well last night and deserves to keep playing. Why call Smaby back up if he's going to sit every other game? Leave him in Norfolk and let him get some games in.

You can't trade Denis. The guy has ZERO trade value. Put him on waivers. Assuming he clears, put him on re-entry waivers. Hopefully, someone will pick him up and free up 50% of his salary (about $1.4-million). Then, trade a prospect and/or picks to pick up Bryzgalov from the Ducks. Too bad we can't pry Gerber from the Senators' clutches...

[b.miller]

This is terrible for the man personally and I wish the guy all the luck in the world, but I still think he is overrated as a player and I think the team tends to play better defense without him.

Trade Denis. Get a defense-first D-man. What happened to us standing the opposing team up at the blue line? The Panthers were flying into our zone all night last night.

[boltcc]

Maybe they should have signed Nolan Pratt before he signed with buffalo..or Jassen Cullimore with the panthers...they knew the system

[Tony]

That is almost criminal! Guess Boyle will be able to swap some war stories with Brian Bradley after all this.

On a side note - since Boyle will be out half this year his offensive numbers will be way down and may not command quite as much in salary for next year!

[bear]

Almost a criminal offense by Bolts staff clearing Boyle to play.

[Eric]

The same Lightning medical staff who said there was no risk of further damaging the wrist when Boyle came back?

Yeah.....

If they can't turn it around, maybe they'll fire Tom Mulligan or whatever his name is along with Torts.