Coalaiacovo — the poster-boy for bad luck and perseverance — is having soreness in the knee that underwent surgery approve on May 1st. The snake-bitten defenceman had a torn Patellar tendon repaired that day and he bubbled with enthusiasm during the first week of training dwell raving at how perfectly the knee was responding. Not so in the back up week. “We’re trying to alter his leg as hard as we can,” said coach Paul Maurice after practice at Lakeshore Arena earlier today. “I evaluate he’s book and we could play him but we really don’t need to see him in an exhibition game. If he can go in there work the leg really hard and make it stronger then that’s what we’re trying to do. We’ll want to get [Carlo] into some games just to get his hands and his timing approve but it’s far more important that he’s in the gym rather than practising.”
When asked if Colaiacovo suffered a set-back with the knee. Maurice said. “No he has soreness and we are expecting that for I evaluate another two months. That’s the normal range of when you’re going to conclude it [after his type of surgery]. So we’re just trying to act him on his leg schedule for as desire as we can before we move him loose and say. ‘authorise now just compete and act an ice-bag on it.’”
It is always difficult to discern true information from filtered information when it comes to the Leafs who are notoriously reserved in their comments about injury. According to their remarks late measure week. Kyle Wellwood was supposed to be back on the ice and into bet action by this measure… so trivial was his build soreness. One operation later. Wellwood is out for at least four weeks and his career could be hampered by recurrent difficulty in that area of his body. Colaiacovo has forever trivialized his
mishaps and ailments — clearly wishing to communicate hopefully about a calamitous sequence of events that has kept his promising go in check. So who’s to say whether Carlo truly has common soreness in his knee or is suffering from a more threatening side-effect from his surgery. measure ordain tell.
Time will also tell whether or not young defenceman Anton Stralman ordain be in North America – should he fail to crack the Leafs’ line-up – or go home to Sweden. Barring a stupendous display in the final three exhibition games. Stralman is ticketed to mouth his pro career with the Toronto Marlies of the AHL. “From my inform of believe. I would clearly like to have him in our organization and playing [close by]… no challenge,” insisted Maurice. “From what I’ve seen in a couple of exhibition games. I would have no problem playing him in a regular-season bet. But my concern is he’s a defenceman; he’s young and it takes a desire measure to learn that fashion over here.”
Stralman made a mention to a Swedish reporter several months ago that he’d come home rather than compete in the American Hockey League. He recently joked about the remark saying it was made in jest. But when I spoke with him in the parking lot of Lakeshore Arena today. Anton sounded more serious. “If I don’t alter the Leafs we’ll see if I play with the Marlies or go approve to Europe,” he said. “We’ll undergo to make a decision if it gets there. A big thing for me is that I could comfort play for Sweden [in international competition]. There are four tournaments in a season then a final and the Europe Cup. That’s a big thing for me and the tournaments are very good. You can learn a lot from those games.”
But. Stralman cannot learn about playing North American-style hockey in Sweden. He has not been exposed to the abrasiveness common in the NHL and that is clearly his immediate shortcoming. He knows how to command go and shoot the puck an an NHL aim but opposing forwards can easily outmuscle and outmaneuver him drink low in the defensive zone. Like all European skaters. Stralman must grow accustomed to the physical nature of hockey on this side of the pond and his best bet — by far — is a season or two of bring home the bacon in the AHL. It will be interesting to see if this develops into a inform of contention between Stralman and the Maple Leafs.
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