Modano spoke Monday for the first time since undergoing surgery Saturday to repair a severed tendon and nerve damage in his right wrist. He was hurt last Friday night when he was cut accidentally by the skate of Columbus forward R.J. Umberger. "Once the skate hit me, the pain was really sharp, and I knew something was wrong," Modano said in a telephone interview with the Free Press. "When I looked in the glove and saw the type of bleeding there was, I knew something was really wrong. I knew it wasn't going to be good news." Modano came out of surgery on Saturday to find rubber bands looped through stitches sewn into his fingernails. For starters, Modano is looking at eight weeks in a cast that immobilizes his arm. Modano said specialist who performed the operation, Dr. Richard Singer, is "very hands-on and is concerned not just about me playing hockey again but about my quality of life."
Over the long holiday weekend I forgot to mention that Modano suffered what seems to be a season ending injury to his right wrist. With any luck we might have our hired gun back for the playoffs but who knows how effective he'll be after eating $5 Hot & Readys all winter long.
Bottom line this definitely sucks but I just don't foresee this injury slowing the Wings down much during the regular season because of their depth at forward. Plus I'm thinking Mike is gonna have a wicked wrister once he returns with those rubber bands sewn into his finger nails.
datsyuk just had a sweet setup for a zetterberg goal.
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