Gustavsson on the IR

Despite a relatively solid showing in Tuesday night’s game against the Senators, Jonas Gustavsson will not get a chance to start again for the near future as he has been placed on injured reserve with a groin injury. 

While management would have likely gone back to Toskala anyways for Saturday’s game, an even rotation would have likely occured for the next handful of matchups as the Finnish vet has done nothing to lock down his number one spot.

This will give Toskala the chance to get in some (hopefully) solid outings and secure his position on the depth chart.  It does not look to be an extremely serious injury however and Gustavsson should be back after no more than a week on the shelf.  There are indications that this has to do with the heart ablation procedure Gustavsson recently underwent.  Not that there should be any worry of lingering injury problems, but as the surgery utilized the groin as an access point it’s quite likely that it was not quite ready for full time action. Joey MacDonald has been called up from the Toronto Marlies to fill in as the backup.

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  • Julie Sucks

    Well put Wedgie…
    I concur…Tosks is toast in this town, in this league…Off to Siberia…Really crappy timing for Gus to get hurt.

  • IBleaf

    @Jordan- Im on your side for this.. Toskala isnt as bad as everyone is saying!!!

  • lonsmos2

    I don’t think they should play Macdonald now because if he plays well then he will more than likely get claimed if we try and bring him back up on re-entry waivers. I say ride Toskala until Gus is ready. If he plays well then we may have a good goaltending tandem for the season or have the ability to trade Tosk for more than a bag of pucks later. If he plays bad then waive him and send him down and take the chance Macdonald will not be cliamed as no one will have seen much of him to grab him.

    I realized that when I started to look at moving Grabovski to the wing we really are short of centres. In the past if you remember we had lots of centres playing out of position on the wing but it seems now we don’t have that luxury. Just wondering out loud what do you think a line with Poni as the centre with Grabo and Kulimen would be like. Poni might be our answer for a big centreman?

  • rustynail

    @lonsmos2 Poni could hardly be worse on faceoffs than Grab.

  • lonsmos2

    rustynail

    I agree and he is a big body, skate pretty well, responsible defencively, good hands and shot.

    Not sure if he has a centre’s mind set though but might be worth a try

  • joyn6160

    If this doesnt turn around and we do end up with a top 5 pick…Brian Burke is going to have a city of angry fans knocking at his door…

    Kessel better hurry the fuck up and heal lol

  • Ksavz

    ive been all for Goose..but wow do ppl have a different tune about Toskala..he was argued for by many for being a top 10 in the NHL, just on an off year (i wasn’t one of them, but wow a couple games and he’s a fly on a car window)..G-buz lol. BTW, what happened to “Vesku” lollll.

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