When Colorado Avalanche right winger P.A. Paterneau fell to the ice after getting tangled up with Winnipeg Jets' defenseman Jacob Trouba in Sunday's overtime home loss, it initially looked far more serious than it turned out to be.
Paterneau had an MRI on Monday, revealing a second-degree sprain of his Medial Collateral Ligament, which will keep him sidelined for upwards of six weeks.
Given the fact that he had to be helped from the ice by team trainers because he couldn't put any weight on the limb, Avalanche coach Patrick Roy feels as if the team dodged a bullet.
"Hard for me to explain more than this regarding the injury," Roy told the Denver Post, "It's part of the season. I think we've been pretty lucky so far. We haven't been hit too (hard) by injuries. I think we've been more lucky than anything else."
A medial collateral·ligament sprain is a tear of the soft tissue ligaments on the media (inside) of the knee.· The MCL is one of the four ligaments in the knee and is primarily responsible for preventing the knee from buckling inward and is the ligament most commonly injured in sports.
In a second-degree sprain, the ligament is torn such that many but not all fibers are disrupted.· The ligament is still intact overall and rest, initial mobilization and gradual rehabilitation are usually indicated.
Roy indicated that Jamie McGinn will skate in Paterneau's place on the Matt Duchene line with Ryan O'Reilly.
http://www.sportsinjuryalert.com/2014/01/avs-pa-parenteau-shelved-for-six-weeks.html
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