Bardreau is ?

[Chris '03]

Is apparently done for the year.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293856712610422785

[RichH]

I know he was down on the ice after the hit that Burgdoerfer got the 5+game on, but he seemed to get up fairly quickly and skate off under his own power. He returned to the game in the 2nd, and was on the ice for Lowry's goal in the last minute in the 3rd.

[Chris '03]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

[cbuckser]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

Cole Bardreau missed only one shift.

Jon Merrill suffered the same injury in an October exhibition game. He missed three months.

[Rita]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

Cole Bardreau missed only one shift.

Jon Merrill suffered the same injury in an October exhibition game. He missed three months.

Scary. Very scary. Here is hoping that he recovers without any complications.

[Trotsky]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

Cole Bardreau missed only one shift.

Jon Merrill suffered the same injury in an October exhibition game. He missed three months.

Cole's lucky as hell.  Presumably there was some sort of numbing that masked the seriousness of the injury, because if you fracture your neck and feel it and go out on the next shift, you're not a hero, you're an idiot.

[Jim Hyla]

There were at least 2 hits from behind at the boards that weren't called before this one. One has to wonder if those had been called. It also didn't look like they were going to impose the misconduct at first. Does the ECAC look at this further or am I being too homerish?

[marty]

Wishing him a full recovery including a return to hockey. Such a tough deal for such a positive guy.

[Jim Hyla]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

Cole Bardreau missed only one shift.

Jon Merrill suffered the same injury in an October exhibition game. He missed three months.

Cole's lucky as hell.  Presumably there was some sort of numbing that masked the seriousness of the injury, because if you fracture your neck and feel it and go out on the next shift, you're not a hero, you're an idiot.

There are a lot of possibilities of type of fracture. Obiously some are scary, but some are more benign. Knowing the type of neck brace would help. The usual soft collar implies not so serious. You could fracture a transverse process and not play, but also not worry so much. Some fractures don't imply an unstable spine, and thus not worry of severing the spinal cord. I suspect the latter and it will take weeks to heal just like any other fracture. A fracture like that would cause pain, but not necessarily any neurological symptoms. So, he says he feels OK, they don't find anything neurologic, and he plays. The pain persists, or worsens over a day or two, they say let's get an XRay, and guess what you've got a fracture. If he had fractured his leg, he'd not likely be back either.

[Jerseygirl]

There were at least 2 hits from behind at the boards that weren't called before this one. One has to wonder if those had been called. It also didn't look like they were going to impose the misconduct at first. Does the ECAC look at this further or am I being too homerish?

Maybe a liiiiiittle homerish? My untrained eyes saw one or two hitting from behinds committed by CU guys that weren't called last weekend; I just thought Union and RPI were being chippy in general. Having not watched a live Cornell game in *cough* several years *cough* my first thought was that an increased focus in general on preventing/treating concussions would lead to more penalties being called. That's why I figured the misconduct was applied in this instance; Bardreau probably picked up a concussion as well.

He's fun to watch. Let's hope he has a speedy, smooth recovery.

[BMac]

This freaking sucks. Poor guy. Talk about good year/bad year. (gold medal/injury)

[Josh '99]

I know he was down on the ice after the hit that Burgdoerfer got the 5+game on, but he seemed to get up fairly quickly and skate off under his own power. He returned to the game in the 2nd, and was on the ice for Lowry's goal in the last minute in the 3rd.

Forgive me for just catching up, but... there's ANOTHER Burgdoerfer who's ALSO a cheap-shot artist?  :-(

[flyersgolf]

This hit was a dangerous hit and penalized correctly during the game.  I do think some type of suspension is deserved to send a message to players about hitting from behind.  At the same time the refs should have called more hitting from behind penalties over the weekend that they inexplicably did I not call.  I also noticed Bardreau got a lot more attention as far as chippiness and attempted hits which I believe stem from his success in Russia.  I believe Greg Burgdoerfer, though not a dirty player, knew who he was lining up and gave a little extra because it was Bardreau.

Because of the lack of hockey this year, I have seen more ecac games of other teams.  Cornell is not the only team suffering from bad refereeing of their games.  Across the league refereeing is not up to par to the level of hockey being played.  Either there are not enough qualified refs or the ECAC does not pay well enough.

[RichH]

I know he was down on the ice after the hit that Burgdoerfer got the 5+game on, but he seemed to get up fairly quickly and skate off under his own power. He returned to the game in the 2nd, and was on the ice for Lowry's goal in the last minute in the 3rd.

Forgive me for just catching up, but... there's ANOTHER Burgdoerfer who's ALSO a cheap-shot artist?  :-(

First of all, they are brothers.  Erik, a defenseman, graduated in 2010 and ammassed over 250 PIM over his career (including 108 in 2008-09).  Greg, a forward, transferred from Air Force (having to sit out his brother's senior year).  The two penalties he received on Saturday (the major + game misconduct) were only his 2nd and 3rd penalties all year. He receieved three minor penalties last season in 12 games.  Not the goon his brother was.

I'll leave it up to our RPI friends to add anything to the playing styles of either.

[cbuckser]

He fractured his neck. Yikes.

https://twitter.com/INCH_Gladdy/status/293860574952058883

Cole Bardreau missed only one shift.

Jon Merrill suffered the same injury in an October exhibition game. He missed three months.

Cole's lucky as hell.  Presumably there was some sort of numbing that masked the seriousness of the injury, because if you fracture your neck and feel it and go out on the next shift, you're not a hero, you're an idiot.

There are a lot of possibilities of type of fracture. Obviously some are scary, but some are more benign. Knowing the type of neck brace would help. The usual soft collar implies not so serious. You could fracture a transverse process and not play, but also not worry so much. Some fractures don't imply an unstable spine, and thus not worry of severing the spinal cord. I suspect the latter and it will take weeks to heal just like any other fracture. A fracture like that would cause pain, but not necessarily any neurological symptoms. So, he says he feels OK, they don't find anything neurologic, and he plays. The pain persists, or worsens over a day or two, they say let's get an XRay, and guess what you've got a fracture.

Sometimes when you get an MRI for your cervical spine, you expect to find one thing and end up discovering a more serious condition. I speak from experience.


The Ithaca Journal article quoted Mike Schafer explaining that Cole did not feel pain from the injury during the game.