Washington Capitals defenseman Joel Edmundson sustained an upper-body injury during Sunday’s intrasquad scrimmage, forcing him to miss the third day of training camp. He is meeting with the medical staff today to determine the severity of the injury.
Joel Edmundson suffered an upper-body injury during a scrimmage Sunday and won’t skate today, per Caps PR. He’s meeting with the medical staff to determine the severity.
Trevor van Riemsdyk will be back out there after he left Sunday’s preseason game early.
— Matt Weyrich (@ByMattWeyrich) September 26, 2023
Edmundson did not play in Washington’s preseason opener against the Buffalo Sabres, and participated in a scrimmage at MedStar Capitals Iceplex. He has had a history of low-back issues and sustained an upper-body in January with the Montreal Canadiens that forced him to miss 11 games.
The good news is that Trevor van Riemsdyk was on the ice on Tuesday morning after he left Washington’s preseason opener with an injury after blocking a shot. Van Riemsdyk has a small cut and some swelling on his forearm where he took the puck on Sunday. Caught him right between his glove and his forearm pad, but no lasting damage
Lines at practice:
Capitals’ lines for their Group A practice this morning:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Mantha
Suzdalev-Rybinksi/Hofer-Sgarbossa
Miro-Phillips-Protas
Malenstyn-Dowd-NAKSandin-Carlson
Alexeyev-TvR
Ness-McIlrath
Leivermann-Day— Matt Weyrich (@ByMattWeyrich) September 26, 2023
The Capitals resume preseason action on Thursday against the Detroit Red Wings at Capital One Arena.
The War Of Attrition NHL is on! Yesterday’s headlines for all teams were First Cuts and first injuries. I hope both TvR and Edmuncrunch are both back in business in time for Season Opener against Cindy Crosby and his flightless waterfowl
LMAO@ “flightless waterfowl”. Like that. I wonder how many wish that the Caps had not won what they did to get the 14 pick in 2005 and take Sasha Pokulok but instead have lost enough to draft Sidney. What a difference that draft would have made as we would have had multiple Cups. That draft was a complete bust for the Caps as not 1 player selected played even 1 game in the NHL.
when can we expect an answer as to the severity of Edmundson’s injury??
He’s visiting doctors today. Carbery said it’s probably not good.
Kinda got to laught at our injuries. But it does pave way for Alexyev (and Johansson). That said I was excited to see Edmundston in the mix. Hope not too serious given we gave up assets for him).
Why? so he can come back and suck until he is injured again?
Edmundson got hurt, really! Wow who could have guessed? What a joke.
Did not like the trade then and like it even less now. Giving up not 1 but 2 picks when this team needs every pick they can get their grubby hands on was asinine and just one example of why this team needs a new GM.
This was like a lesser tier of the Erat trade. We probably could have just claimed him off waivers around this time if GMBM did not need to give the appearance that he did “something”.
Well part of this is that half of his salary was retained hence two picks. We couldn’t have afforded him on waivers. And this isn’t even close to Erat trade with a third and 7th versus a first round guy who already showed potential.
Yeah it was a lesser tier trade but one that was not needed as we needed the picks more than a player on the downside of his career. There are several young players who should be getting playing time rather than this guy. Time for the great BM to move on down the pipe!!
So the injury bug’s not going away, huh? No magic ON/OFF switch for that, it seems
Okay I’m ready Alexeyev in the locker room with a hockey stick!
Man he beat Oshie to injury… this dude has moxy!
Oddly enough this injury strengthens the Caps D…I’ll allow it
so aside from rampant sarcasm, is there an answer as to the severity of his injury??
Nothing formal from the team as of yet.