On Sunday, the Anaheim Geese introduced that they might be putting Rickard Rakell on injured reserve, and that his standing could be week-to-week. In addition they introduced that Jakob Silfverberg had been positioned on the NHL’s COVID Protocol checklist. In a corresponding transfer, the Geese recalled ahead Vinni Lettieri from the San Diego Gulls of the American Hockey League, in addition to an emergency recall of Sam Carrick.
Rakell suffered the harm on Thursday in opposition to the Buffalo Sabres. He appeared to have damage his left shoulder after crashing into the boards.
The 28-year-old ahead was off to a wonderful begin to the season, with 4 factors, all targets, via eight contests. He’s on an expiring contract that may deliver him straight to unrestricted free agent standing this summer time, which suggests he may develop into a lovely commerce piece because the season strikes alongside.
With Max Jones already damage, the winger division is sparse in Anaheim, and so they want all fingers on deck, so this Rakell harm is lower than very best. He’ll miss not less than one week as a result of being on IR, and not less than two video games after that.
Together with Rakell, the Geese are additionally dropping ahead Jakob Silfverberg to the NHL’s COVID-19 Protocol.
Silfverberg, 31, has had a pleasantly shocking begin to the season, with 8 factors (1 purpose, 7 assists) via 9 video games performed. He’s been a priceless piece to the Geese’ proper aspect of their ahead core.
In contrast to Rakell, Silfverberg is locked up for some time, and gained’t be a rental piece close to the deadline, so the urgency from the workforce for him to return probably isn’t as excessive. Nonetheless, they’re undoubtedly going to endure some blows with out him.
The workforce has known as up Sam Carrick on an emergency foundation to interchange Silfverberg in the interim. He’s a really expert AHL participant who seems to be a stable depth plug-in when wanted on the NHL degree, with 6 factors via 13 video games final season in Anaheim.
You’d assume that dropping these two would trigger the Geese to spiral, nevertheless, they’ve saved on marching on, and even took down the Montreal Canadiens by a rating of 4-2 on Sunday evening to enhance to a 3-4-3 document. Humorous sufficient, each Lettieri and Carrick scored targets within the recreation, which is promising for the workforce’s hopes of changing their injured forwards.
The Geese will hope to construct off of their win in opposition to Montreal, because it snapped a six-game dropping streak. They get proper again at it tonight in opposition to the New Jersey Devils.
