Larry Brooks did a nice report to try and clear up this discrepancy between what the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported on September 12th and what the Rangers were saying. Brooks went straight to the source, Henrik Lundqvist, to get an answer about the condition of his knees.
This morning, Brooksie wrote:
The condition of Henrik Lundqvist's knees was apparently lost in translation when a Swedish newspaper reported that the goaltender is taking weekly cortisone shots to deal with lingering pain from a goal-mouth collision late in Game 4 of the Pittsburgh playoff series.
"I took one cortisone shot in each knee during the first week of August, and that's it," said The King...
The "lost in translation" comment by Brooks seems like a polite way to say that the Swedish reporter was making things up.
Last Friday, Steve Zipay at Newsday reported:
Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist received cortisone shots in his knees once in the offseason after playing for Team Sweden, but is not receiving any now and is fine, contrary to a Swedish newspaper report, the team said...
Alftonblatet is Swedish for The Evening Sheet. It has had its journalism questioned in the past. But you have to wonder what was going on between Lundqvist and this reporter.
The Aftonbladet story was downright scary. The Two-Line Pass blog took a shot at translating what they said. The title of the story roughly translated to: "Forced to go on syringes".
Here is an attempt to translate some of the Alftonblatet story using Google's translator. Maybe a Swedish reader could help on translating it better?
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WORRIED: Henrik Lundqvist's sore knees still haunt. To deal with the pain has been the New York Rangers goalie had to take cortisone injections.Forced to go on syringes
Pain in the knees refuses to back down: "It has not healed as I had hoped"
NEW YORK. Three weeks before the start of the NHL season Henrik Lundqvist is taking injections. His aching knees do not heal.
- It has not healed as I had hoped," said the star goalie when Sportbladet met him in New York.
Henrik Lundqvist sore knees began at the end of last NHL season - and during the finals was growing affection for pain. The damage, out it kept on a leash, gave him huge problems during the World Cup in Canada this spring.
- The hope was that a long, quiet summer leave would eliminate the problems.
But really there has not been. - It has not healed well as I had hoped, revealing "Henke" when we meet him just three weeks before the season start in the New York Rangers training north of Manhattan.
- It was a little better during the summer, but never quite good.
"Got cortisone"
The solution: The Swedish star goalkeeper has been on the syringes during the season run-up.
- Yes, it get over the threshold, and he was getting cortisone weekly. So now it feels good.
It does not sound like a very successful start to a season that is going on at least seven months, but Lundqvist himself is not particularly worried.
- No, there is always some trouble this time of year. It begins to feel like it is part of the move on hold in August, that there is a problem that needs to be fixed.
He as one of the few Swedish NHL professionals showed up in the spring is no "Henke" repent - although in all cases in lekmannaögon looked like the injury was aggravated in Quebec.
- Absolutely not. It is clear, it got no better. I missed Two weeks of rest. But I think I have been in exactly the same situation although I have not played the World Cup.
Butterfly and labor.
Ice Hockey Federation's Federal doctor Bjorn Waldebäck treated Lundqvist during the World Cup. And he has a feel for the new butterfly-style can be hard for the new modern goalkeepers.
Goalkeepers nowadays go up and down several thousand times in one season. Obviously, it is stressful to ledbanden (ligaments?) in the knees.
One idea I have is that long goalkeepers can have more problems with their knees because the angles and thus load becomes greater, but there is nothing I have evidence, "said Bjorn Waldebäck.
Apart from the krånglande knees, it is an optimistic Henrik Lundqvist who is preparing for its fourth season in the world's best line.
- I had a great summer, have trained well and feel in great shape, "he said after one of the intensive workouts he and his many new teammates in preparation for the start of training camp on Monday.
Restructured
It is a restructured New York Rangers, who will play at Madison Square Garden this winter.
Gone are players such as Jaromir Jagr, Martin Straka, Sean Avery and - perhaps - Brendan Shanahan. In their places are now sitting in the changing room instead player Markus Näslund, Wade Redden, Nikolai Zherdev, Patrick Rissmiller and Aaron Voros. . . .
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"There is always some trouble," said Lundqvist.---
Butterfly-style rip much of goalkeepers -perhaps even a little extra on storvyxna goalkeepers.
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