Upper body injury: Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa’s condition not improved-NHL News
Chicago Blackhawks’ forward, Marian Hossa, remains uncertain to return from an unspecified upper-body injury after he missed Game 4 of the Western Conference playoff quarterfinals series on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
Hossa was injured in Game 3 of the series and since then, is recovering from the injury at home.
As of the latest, Blackhawks’ coach, Joel Quenneville, said that the player’s prognosis for a comeback remains unknown.
According to the official, the player’s condition has not improved since his release from the hospital on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
Quenneville said:
"There's no change. Spoke to him yesterday and he's feeling the same as the last two days. I'm not going to go any further with it than where we are today."
Hossa was knocked down on the ice by a hit from Phoenix Coyotes’ winger, Raffi Torres, in Game 3. He remained motionless on the ice for few moments before being taken to the sidelines on a stretcher.
Later, he was shifted to hospital in an ambulance but was released on the same night. Since then, he is recovering from the injury at his home. Now according to the coach, the player’s situation has not changed since his moving out of the hospital.
Joel has refused to speculate any date for the player’s return and the mum on the latest injury status has recently fed the fears around the seriousness of it, especially it being a concussion.
Torres has been suspended by the NHL indefinitely over the hit. He faces an in-person hearing with the league on Friday, April 20. The hearing has been rescheduled from Thursday to Friday on a request from the player and NHL Players Association (NHLPA),
whose officials are going to be present.
Torres is expected to know his fate after the hearing and the negative reports on Hossa’s recovery do not bode well with his chances of being spared from any further punishment by the league.
Meanwhile, the NHL has also fined Blackhawks coach $10,000 over his criticism on officiating of the game. It is pertinent to note here that Quenneville had been fined to the same extent over such an outburst a year earlier.
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