Oiler d-man prospect breaks leg on icing

[puckhead]

Oilers knock off Wild in shootout; Fedun suffers broken leg

Edmonton defenceman Taylor Fedun broke his right left after getting his skates tangled with a stick while racing Minnesota's Eric Nystrom for a loose puck in the second period. Fedun left the ice on a stretcher and was taken to a hospital and did not make the trip back to Edmonton with his teammates.

Nystrom was given a five-minute major penalty for boarding and a game misconduct.

Anaheim Ducks defenceman Kurtis Foster, who almost saw his career ended by a similar injury offered his thoughts on the play.

"To be honest, I was hoping and wishing I would never have to see anyone go through what I had to recover from," said Oilers Kurtis Foster. "I really hope this will lead to the changes of the icing rule that need to be made!

"Touch icing is a dangerous play that is not needed in our league and maybe this will open the eyes of the NHL and the NHLPA. A fractured femur for the second time is awful, but let's hope nothing worse happens to somebody someday!"

Foster has already reached out to Fedun via text and offered his support to the Oilers medical staff should they need it.

Edmonton was forced to play part of the second period and all of the third with only three defencemen. Ladislav Smid (right shoulder) and Taylor Chorney (right knee) also were injured during the game.


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enystrom23 Eric Nystrom
just tryin to hustle like I have my whole career.Very unfortunate what happened,I would switch places w taylor right now if I could


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so... time to have the no-touch icing debate again?

 

[mattola]

ooof poor kid. hope he heals well

 

[forty_three]

And Brendan Shanahan hastily suspends the linesman for 18 games.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

And Brendan Shanahan hastily suspends the linesman for 18 games.

Not to worry. Shanny will be canned after this year and replaced with the recently retired Daniel Alfredsson.

 

[Darkstone42]

Wow, broken femur. That's among the most painful injuries your can receive if I'm not mistaken. I can't imagine.

I'm all for no-touch icing. I don't get any real excitement out of those races for the puck. I figure some rule could be put in to wave it off if it looks like the team who iced the puck will likely touch it first, but avoiding pointless and dangerous collisions can't be a bad idea.

 

[forty_three]

Not to worry. Shanny will be canned after this year and replaced with the recently retired Daniel Alfredsson.

That'll be fine. We all know Alfie has no guts, so he won't do ANYTHING to upset anyone.

 

[Destroydacre]

Wow, broken femur. That's among the most painful injuries your can receive if I'm not mistaken. I can't imagine.

I'm all for no-touch icing. I don't get any real excitement out of those races for the puck. I figure some rule could be put in to wave it off if it looks like the team who iced the puck will likely touch it first, but avoiding pointless and dangerous collisions can't be a bad idea.

Changing it from automatic icing hardly changes the game at all. How many icing calls get beat out anyway? Junior hockey has had automatic icing for at least 6 seasons now, maybe longer, and the game is still exciting. It's still hockey. There's absolutely no reason for the NHL not to change this. There's too many injuries that result from racing to touch the puck.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

I don't understand why this is such a big deal all of a sudden, I remember hearing about how Mario used to injure his jaw, throat, fingers, and stomach in icing related incidents back in the 90's.


/The Anonymous Player says, "Shack is a fucking child"...

 

[CatScrap]

Automatic icing won't fix these problems. Auto icing is only called if the team who iced the puck has no chance of touching it up first. The players will still be allowed to chase the puck together when the race is close which is the only time that icing related injuries occur. Introducing automatic icing will not prevent injuries that result from close races for the puck, the only thing it will do is speed up the game by not forcing the touch up on obvious icing calls.

 

[Destroydacre]

Automatic icing won't fix these problems. Auto icing is only called if the team who iced the puck has no chance of touching it up first. The players will still be allowed to chase the puck together when the race is close which is the only time that icing related injuries occur. Introducing automatic icing will not prevent injuries that result from close races for the puck, the only thing it will do is speed up the game by not forcing the touch up on obvious icing calls.

Wrong. Automatic icing is called when the puck crosses the goal line, regardless of whether or not the team who iced it would have beaten it out.

 

[puckhead]

Automatic icing won't fix these problems. Auto icing is only called if the team who iced the puck has no chance of touching it up first. The players will still be allowed to chase the puck together when the race is close which is the only time that icing related injuries occur. Introducing automatic icing will not prevent injuries that result from close races for the puck, the only thing it will do is speed up the game by not forcing the touch up on obvious icing calls.

you're talking about the hybrid icing that that had discussed.


Nystrom visited Fedun in the hospital today

 

[CatScrap]

Sorry my bad

 

[Destroydacre]

Sorry my bad

It's all good. I get the feeling that if the league does change the icing rules, they'll go with hybrid icing over automatic. I don't like it because 1) it doesn't address the problem like you said, and 2) it adds more human judgment into the game which IMO is not needed.