Erik Johnson, a young defenseman for the St. Louis Blues and the player considered most important in the team's youth movement, is out for the season because of a golf injury.
Johnson, the team's No. 1 draft pick in 2006, tore two ligaments in his right knee during a golf outing. The Canadian Press reports that Johnson caught his foot between the accelerator and the brake on his golf cart, causing the stress in his knee.
John Davidson, the team president and former Rangers goalie and broadcaster, said, "In our business, you get a few curveballs. This is a pretty good curveball." He added that the young player is distraught and feels responsible and that the organization is supporting him.
Naturally, people will make jokes about that. Getting hurt on a golf outing? It happened and it's a very sad moment in a promising career.
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Golf in not a contact sport, but can be just as hard on the body. LOL. Erik shouldn't feel bad, he could have just as easily hurt himself walking and chewing gum at the same time.
Of course if that happened to Josh Bailey, Wang, Dey, Snow and Gordon would never hear the end of it from Herrmann and would do his latest Islanders could be moving article.
Nothing like some selective Newsday spin by Mr Herrmann for a former Ranger broadcaster who cannot even produce a better record than Garth Snow.