Boone Jenner's back creates more Columbus injury woes
Just when the Blue Jackets start to get hot, healthy and look like a playoff team … bam, they get hit with yet another injury.
Saturday, the team announced forward Boone Jenner will the next 1-2 months with a stress fracture in his back. Though he has just 12 points in 20 games played, his value is way more important than just scores.
Says the Columbus Dispatch:
He's a highly competitive player, both in practice and in games, and he drives the team's work ethic in most games.
According to Dispatch Blue Jackets scribe Aaron Portzline, the team will have lost 209 man-games to injury this year when it plays the Blackhawks on Saturday night. That sounds awful ... if you're a Blue Jackets player, coach, exec or fan.
Jenner missed the first month of the season with a broken hand and didn’t play his first game until Nov. 4.
The article also says that Jenner’s back had been bothering him for “some time.” The Blue Jackets recalled Sean Collins from the AHL.
This certainly can’t help Columbus’ momentum. The team had won seven of eight games – a stretch where it had gone 7-0-1.
Even with such a streak, the Blue Jackets enter Saturday seven points out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. This in itself is a minor miracle, since its entire first line – including Jenner – was out earlier in the year.
Poor Lumbus. But the Blue Jackets are one of those ‘hot goalie’ type teams. As long as they have Bob(rovsky) they can at least tread water.
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