Recent news out of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, is that left winger Joffrey Lupul added to his long list of injuries with a broken hand suffered at the Leafs morning practice on Thursday Morning.
Friday night before the game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Leafs official twitter account posted these tweets updating Joffrey Lupul’s status:
Joffrey Lupul will not play tonight vs CMB. He’s out indefinitely w/ broken bone in right hand #TMLtalk
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) October 31, 2014
#TMLtalk video: Dave Nonis spoke to the media about Joffrey Lupul’s injury http://t.co/2KFlTB28gQ #Leafs — Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 1, 2014
Lupul on his injury: “Kind of shocked right now. I certainly didn’t think anything was wrong.” http://t.co/30S3y3bepT pic.twitter.com/KgGGGAtq7F
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 1, 2014
This news was updated on Saturday with coach Randy Carlyle stating that Lupul is expected to be out for at least three weeks.
Joffrey Lupul out 3 weeks with broken bone in hand, Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. Lupul will be in cast 10 days.
— Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) November 1, 2014
Lupul has quite a long list of injuries throughout his twelve year career with Abdominal, Back, Broken Arm, Broken Wrist, Bruised Spine, Concussions, Separated Shoulder, Sprained Ankle, Strained Groin, and Torn Meniscus. Lupul has played in 609 career National Hockey League games, scoring 186 goals, and 202 assists.
Joffrey Lupul has two goals and one assist for three points in nine games this season. After his slow start he played his most recent game on Tuesday on a line with Nazem Kadri and Phil Kessel, but it appears that any plans to jumpstart his season by playing with Kessel will have to be put on hold.
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