Every day a player is able to rest, bruises start to dissipate, broken bones knit together, brain fog from concussions slowly starts to burn off - but given the ambiguity surrounding the injuries to Steven Stamkos, Valtteri Filppula and Ben Bishop, the two weeks may not be enough for the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Stamkos, of course, is in the process of recovering from a broken tibia while Filppula is dealing with a fractured bone in his ankle - but Bishop's injury is a mystery, though there are many speculating that the wrist on his left (glove) side is the offending member, and for a goalie, that's bad news.
He pulled himself from Tampa's 4-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings last Thursday with an undisclosed upper-body injury, though it has been clear that he's been dealing with the wrist problem ever since injuring it on January 5th at Edmonton.
"Ben doesn't pull himself out of games because he doesn't want to play," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said after the win. "He's pulling himself out of games because it's extremely painful to play. So the Olympic break is probably going to help him."
Probably. For sure, the rest is not going to hurt him, but it remains to be seen if the inactivity solves the issue. In the interim, Cooper is befuddled and understandably frustrated.
"Clearly there is a concern," Cooper continued. "To start games and not finish when I'm not the one giving him the hook - he's having health issues, for sure."
Of course, just because what exactly is ailing his Vezina Trophy candidate is a mystery to the uninitiated and layman doesn't mean it's quite so capricious to Cooper, and just the fact that he's hopeful that the break will solve the problem should have Lightning fans resting a little easier themselves.
http://www.sportsinjuryalert.com/2014/02/bishops-upper-body-injury-has-bolts.html#.UvrSt7Qcq58
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