Duff’s notebook: on Troy Stecher’s injury

Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff posted a notebook article which discusses Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill’s update on defenseman Troy Stecher’s undisclosed injury:

“Stech has a number of options and one of which I think is that he’s gonna kind of go through the next couple of weeks and see how the injury reacts,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill expained. “He’s hoping that it becomes a pain tolerance thing.”

A week has already passed since Stecher’s injury was suffered during a 5-1 loss to the Boston Bruins. He’ll be missing from the lineup for a fourth straight game as the Wings are tangling with the Washington Capitals on Thursday at Little Caesars Arena.

One thing about the injury – it can’t get any worse. The question for the time being is apparently whether it’s already to the point where it’s bad enough that Stecher can’t perform effectively.

“It’s not something that he can hurt further,” Blashill said. “If it doesn’t react right, he’s either going to have to take significant time off, or have surgery. The other choice – that’s two of them – the third choice is give it a couple of days here and see if he can play through the pain and if the pain will subside at all. We’ll just keep taking it day by day.”

Continued; in this type of situation, I’m guessing that going for surgery might yield the least time for Stecher to recover.

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