According to the roster on the team site, Alex Semin has been placed on injured reserve. Of course, that same roster (which, incidentally, is fed to the Caps site by a central register of players) also lists Ben Clymer as a defenseman, so take that for what it's worth, and we'll keep an eye out for confirmation.Speaking of Clymer, he has been placed on re-entry waivers in an attempt to bring him back to the NHL, likely due to Semin's (and/or Brian Sutherby's) injuries being worse than initially expected, and placing Semin on the IR would seem to support this theory, as opposed to the theory that Clymer's recall is because a trade is in the works. At $1.05m for the next two seasons (recall that a team claiming a player on re-entry waivers is only on the hook for half of that player's salary), I can easily think of a handful of teams who would do well to snag Clymes, but we shall see if anyone actually will. Stay tuned.
Update (10/6): Semin was put on the IR, retroactive to the date of the injury, so he's eligible to come off and play versus Carolina.
5 comments:
IR = a minimum of 7 days out, correct?
That's a bummer for Alex S. and the team, but here's to a speedy recovery!
Hope we can keep Clymer as it looks like we will need the depth right now.
could this be a ploy? What an easy way to let Clymer go.
I'm in Korea so I have no idea what's going on, but is Suts confirmed to have an injury as Tarik was speculating? He seems to be a scratch. And why keep Schultzie just to scratch him for Erskine? Anyone hearing what JoeB/etc. are saying?
Sutherby is a healthy scratch according to Joe B., but I'm not sold.
Erskine will dress against tougher/dirtier teams, I'd assume, so he's in tonight. And he has a goal, which is nice.
Yeah, a 64-footer says NHL.com? (I was supposed to be looking at art five mins ago, but this NY-CLE game is awesome.)
And Erskine, who is slow anyway, was realllll slow last year on the second-end of B2Bs. Kind of the Olie plan for him this year, I'm guessing.
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