The bone might be healed by April 1 but the Leafs will want to make sure the ligaments and tendons are fine, too.
The hard-nosed, two-way centre hasn’t skated with the team sinceon March 5, though Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said his return to the ice was imminent.
in a March 4 game in Vancouver. He was placed on long-term injured reserve and must miss 10 games and 24 days, meaning the earliest he can return is April 1 in Ottawa. “The bone itself heals in about four weeks, in most cases, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to be 100 per cent in four weeks,” said Carlson, who is the primary hand surgeon for a number of professional sports teams, including the New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, and New York Mets. “There can often be an injury to the other structures that take even longer to heal than the bone to heal. There are tendons in that area. There are ligaments.
“You have to have some ability to hold the stick you’re a little bit less dependent probably on that finger than you would be in some other sports where you’re totally unprotected,” Carlson said. “You want to get the whole bone that’s broken protected. So it depends on where that break is, how much you have to immobilize to give him adequate protection.”
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