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Post by mscaniac on Feb 10, 2010 6:23:22 GMT -5
Yea you're right, it just seems longer I guess. What do you mean they are "writing him off" for next year? Do the silly King fans think he's done?
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Post by Ells on Feb 10, 2010 15:53:20 GMT -5
They think he's done for this season regardless of whether they make the playoffs. For the most part. We'll see and I hope to God he proves them wrong.
And they think Lombardi will let him walk next July.
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Post by Freaky for JWillie on Feb 11, 2010 22:09:10 GMT -5
They think he's done for this season regardless of whether they make the playoffs. For the most part. We'll see and I hope to God he proves them wrong. And they think Lombardi will let him walk next July. Maybe he'll come back to the East coast. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Ells on Feb 11, 2010 22:37:41 GMT -5
One can only hope he comes back East! Would love to have him back were we can watch him.
Would also like to see him do his best Kevlar impression and be invulnerable for the next ten years of his life, but that may well be pushing it.
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Post by Melindaaaaaa [26] on Feb 12, 2010 9:48:41 GMT -5
Where's that gallon of milk I said I was gonna make him drink? I think he needs it more than I originally realized.
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Post by Ells on Feb 12, 2010 19:35:23 GMT -5
Hahaha, I'm not sure Mellers, but maybe we should write him a letter recommending that!
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Post by Ells on Feb 24, 2010 19:05:11 GMT -5
From Rich Hammond:
Ah Rich, just wait, you'll see he can write his own timetable. =D
If I could do cartwheels, I'd so be doing them at this moment, lol
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Post by mscaniac on Feb 24, 2010 19:30:41 GMT -5
Woo Hoo! Great news. Go show em' Jwill!
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Post by Ells on Feb 24, 2010 19:59:45 GMT -5
Oh JWill. As much fun as you seem to have with Rich's head... Nah nevermind, go ahead.
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Post by Ells on Feb 25, 2010 20:10:39 GMT -5
Williams’ return `quite likely’ Posted by Rich Hammond on 25 February 2010, 4:09 pm
Justin Williams’ recovery from his broken ankle is going to be hard to judge on a day-to-day basis, but it’s safe to say that everyone in the Kings organization is enthused about the progress that Williams has made in the past two months, and today, Terry Murray expressed great optimism that Williams will be able to return before the end of the regular season…
Question: It was a big surprise for me to learn that Justin had started skating. Was a surprise to you, or were you kind of tracking him all along?
MURRAY: “I’m very surprised at how far along he is also. He went to the doctor and got the green light to go on the ice. When that call came to me, from Kinger [athletic trainer Chris Kingsley] that, `Here’s the news,’ I said, `You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Man, and here he is now, public skating, and it just shows the dedication and the hard work, and the hard work the medical staff has done with him.”
Question: As a coach, are you keeping it in the back of your mind that he might be able to play before the end of the regular season?
MURRAY: “damn right I am, and I’ve been thinking that way all the way through, quite honestly. I have never gone through pieces of paper, writing down lines, where I haven’t put his number over in the corner, as a reminder that this is a player who played very well for us. It’s quite likely that he will be back for us in the last games of the season.”
Question: Realistically, given his injury and recovery, do you have any sense of how many games he might need in order to be really ready?
MURRAY: “That’s a tough call. It just comes down to how much work he’s going to put into it right now. If he keeps pushing it the way he has in the past three weeks, for the next couple weeks here, he can come along pretty quickly. That’s a tough call. Whether he needs to go play a couple games in Manchester or not, I don’t know that.”
Gee. Would be weird as hell to play your first AHL game at 28.
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Post by Freaky for JWillie on Feb 25, 2010 21:35:50 GMT -5
Williams’ return `quite likely’ Posted by Rich Hammond on 25 February 2010, 4:09 pm Justin Williams’ recovery from his broken ankle is going to be hard to judge on a day-to-day basis, but it’s safe to say that everyone in the Kings organization is enthused about the progress that Williams has made in the past two months, and today, Terry Murray expressed great optimism that Williams will be able to return before the end of the regular season… Question: It was a big surprise for me to learn that Justin had started skating. Was a surprise to you, or were you kind of tracking him all along? MURRAY: “I’m very surprised at how far along he is also. He went to the doctor and got the green light to go on the ice. When that call came to me, from Kinger [athletic trainer Chris Kingsley] that, `Here’s the news,’ I said, `You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Man, and here he is now, public skating, and it just shows the dedication and the hard work, and the hard work the medical staff has done with him.” Question: As a coach, are you keeping it in the back of your mind that he might be able to play before the end of the regular season? MURRAY: “damn right I am, and I’ve been thinking that way all the way through, quite honestly. I have never gone through pieces of paper, writing down lines, where I haven’t put his number over in the corner, as a reminder that this is a player who played very well for us. It’s quite likely that he will be back for us in the last games of the season.”Question: Realistically, given his injury and recovery, do you have any sense of how many games he might need in order to be really ready? MURRAY: “That’s a tough call. It just comes down to how much work he’s going to put into it right now. If he keeps pushing it the way he has in the past three weeks, for the next couple weeks here, he can come along pretty quickly. That’s a tough call. Whether he needs to go play a couple games in Manchester or not, I don’t know that.” Gee. Would be weird as hell to play your first AHL game at 28. I love that quote that Terry Murray said about putting Justin's number in the corner of the paper. It made me tear up..lol..I can't wait until he can play again. I MISS HIM!!!!! Ellie, it would probably be good for him to play in the AHL first and get used to playing again.
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Post by Ells on Feb 25, 2010 22:08:54 GMT -5
You're probably right about that. I'm just thinking how weird it would feel, lol. Skipped right past going back to Junior and waiting for the AHL at 18, so getting sent down there for a couple games ten years later I would think would be surreal. Betcha it'd be a hit in Manchester though!
I think they would have some issues as far as that though, makes more sense to keep him on the NHL roster and play him five minutes than to put him on the AHL roster and have him play the same five minutes. I don't know if they still have the pull-up freeze after the deadline.
I can just see poor Lavi wishing he could swap somebody for JWill tho, lol. God I miss JWill SO much...
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Post by Ells on Mar 1, 2010 19:23:01 GMT -5
JWill makes Hammond rethink his opinion:
Happy traveler Posted by Rich Hammond on 1 March 2010, 3:55 pm
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that Justin Williams might far exceed my expectations for his return. Since his injury, I’ve considered the idea that he might return this season to be doubtful at best, but given the way he has looked in practice for the past few days, I’d have to change my opinion of that.
Williams made it through his first full practice on Monday morning and accompanied the Kings on their two-game road trip. Williams still has quite a bit of conditioning work to do, but injured players typically don’t travel, so Williams’ presence on the road indicates that the Kings are very serious about his return. Everyone is staying tight-lipped about a possible return date — and Williams stressed that he will not play during this two-game trip — but Williams is progressing very well.
The doctors might have helped. After practice, Williams explained his injury — which is technically a broken bone in his leg and stretched ankle ligaments, not a broken ankle — and how a newer procedure might have helped his recovery time.
WILLIAMS: “There’s the tibia, and then the fibula on the side. Those bones join together at the ankle. Those bones are joined by ligaments, which I stretched, and they spread out. What they usually do is, they take screws and tighten it up, and take the screws out eight weeks later. In this, they basically put in a plate with buttons on it, and they cinch it tight. They wrap it around and pull it, so there are no screws involved. They just pull it and tighten it up to where it needs to be and tie it in a knot and wait. This way, the screws don’t need to be taken out. The plate stays in there. It’s attached to the bone, and that will just stay in there. But there’s no screws going into the tibia, which is what they would usually do.”
WILLIAMS: “I did as much research as I could on this. I had a goal in mind for myself, and it just helps me drive forward every day. Surprisingly, it’s like right around where I thought it would be.”
Kudos on rethinking it, Rich, you're a better man than I am, lol
Road trip a week after hitting the ice for the first time in two months? Not bad, JWill, not bad at all.
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Post by Freaky for JWillie on Mar 1, 2010 23:49:14 GMT -5
Great article Ellie. I love reading anything and everything on Justin. He's so cute when he's telling the story about his injury..lol..I wonder if he will beep at the airports now that he has metal in his body. Haha!
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Post by Ells on Mar 4, 2010 16:31:47 GMT -5
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