Brown at Cornell

[Tom Lento]

Frankly, I didn't know that standard, as lower body injury could mean a torn quad or hamstring, couldn't it?

I always assumed it had to do with hiding injuries that opponents could target.  It's hard to aim for a hammy; easy to hunt a knee.

I first ran into it as a sort of inside joke with Brent Peterson and some other coaches in the WHL (he's now with the Preds and, pardon the drift, DESERVES A HEAD COACHING POSITION if anybody out there needs a new coach, I'm looking at you, Islanders) and perhaps now I just read into it whenever I hear those magic words.  In any event, I hope Locke is back soon.

I think you're right, but of course if you only say upper body for shoulder and lower body for knee everyone knows what that means. I admit I don't follow the NHL injury report all that closely, but apart from the occasional concussion (followed by the obligatory "he won't return to the ice until he's completely healed" caveat) I don't think I've heard anything other than upper/lower body injury for a few seasons now.

[Josh '99]

Any word on Jillson's condition?

[specific injury] - second-hand source from a Sun sports writer.

[insert annual discussion about discussing the health of student athletes on elynah or any other public space here]

[Insert annual discussion about how one of our players gets seriously injured seemingly every time we play Brown here]  ::cuss::

I felt that the hit looked pretty clean to me. The Brown player did approach Jillson a little bit from behind, but he hit Jillson shoulder to shoulder into the boards. It looked like a good shoulder-shoulder hit to me and Jillson just unfortunately got crunched up funny in the process and got injured.

OK, but that doesn't *really* contradict what I said.  :-}

[Jacob '06]

Any word on Jillson's condition?

[specific injury] - second-hand source from a Sun sports writer.

[insert annual discussion about discussing the health of student athletes on elynah or any other public space here]

[Insert annual discussion about how one of our players gets seriously injured seemingly every time we play Brown here]  ::cuss::

I felt that the hit looked pretty clean to me. The Brown player did approach Jillson a little bit from behind, but he hit Jillson shoulder to shoulder into the boards. It looked like a good shoulder-shoulder hit to me and Jillson just unfortunately got crunched up funny in the process and got injured.

OK, but that doesn't *really* contradict what I said.  :-}

Yeah yeah yeah. I was just trying to get my thoughts out there, I guess I didn't have to quote you.

[Al DeFlorio]

Locke wrote to me and implied that he will be back later this season but was very non-specific.  The team tends to be very quiet about injuries so I guess those of us off the ice should remain respectful (aren't we always!) and patient.

From today's (Saturday's) Ithaca Journal:

"On the injury front, junior winger Locke Jillson was still deemed a "50/50" possibility by Schafer as of Wednesday afternoon. After suffering what Schafer classified as a significant injury after a scary collision along the boards on Saturday, Jillson was still gauging in practice if he could continue to play."