Bruins ‘extraordinarily sad’ over dealing with of McAvoy damage

“They felt that on this specific case, McAvoy did not get the correct care.”

Charlie McAvoy’s anticipated return to the ice remains to be undetermined. Brian Fluharty/Getty Photos

Charlie McAvoy’s presence shall be missed on Thursday night time as Crew USA takes on Canada within the 4 Nations Face-Off title sport at TD Backyard.

However past worldwide competitors, a Bruins crew desperately making an attempt to claw again into playoff positioning might not have McAvoy for the ultimate stretch of regular-season play.

The Bruins introduced Wednesday that McAvoy stays hospitalized after present process a process to deal with an an infection in his proper shoulder — together with a “vital” AC joint damage.

Whereas the crew didn’t provide a restoration timeline for McAvoy, Day by day Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli reported on Tuesday that McAvoy is taken into account “week to week” transferring ahead.

Given McAvoy’s anticipated absence transferring ahead — coupled with the character of McAvoy’s ailment, particularly with reference to an an infection — Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman famous on Wednesday that the Bruins group will not be happy with how Crew USA’s medical workers dealt with the complete scenario.

“I feel the people who find themselves the angriest is the crew, the Bruins,” Friedman stated on the Sportsnet 590 The Fan radio station. “In the event you learn their assertion right now, they make it very clear that they’re sad with how this all went down, that they don’t really feel that their participant was given the correct therapy. It appears now that McAvoy was initially injured within the opener towards Finland. There’s a play the place Joel Armia takes him laborious into the publish.

“And it appears like — I don’t know if he obtained a shot or one thing. I don’t know precisely what occurred, however he performed Saturday, it appears to be like like, with way more extreme an damage than he was initially led to imagine, and everyone was initially led to imagine, which makes his efficiency all that extra spectacular.”

Regardless that McAvoy put collectively a dominant efficiency in Saturday’s win over Canada, Friedman famous that McAvoy’s situation deteriorated in brief order after the weekend — prompting the Bruins to confess him to the hospital.

“Fom what I perceive, on Monday he was in a bit extra ache, and was admitted to the hospital, and so they realized the damage was extra extreme than believed or initially recognized,” Friedman stated of McAvoy. “And quantity two, there was an an infection there that needed to be operated on and eliminated. So, I don’t know if he was given a needle or shot or one thing like that, and it obtained contaminated, but it surely was one thing alongside these traces.

“I keep in mind yesterday when it was the Bruins and never Crew USA that introduced that McAvoy was out, there have been folks saying, ‘How come the Bruins, whose GM is the GM of Crew Canada, are asserting that Charlie McAvoy wouldn’t play?’ After which it grew to become fairly clear that it’s as a result of the Bruins had been extraordinarily sad with the way in which this had been dealt with, and that they felt that on this specific case, McAvoy didn’t get the correct care.”

As Friedman famous, the Bruins had been those who introduced in statements on Tuesday and Wednesday that McAvoy was each admitted to the hospital and was dominated out of Thursday’s sport towards Canada — not Crew USA.

Wednesday’s assertion from the crew was from Bruins doctor Dr. Peter Asnis, who supplied loads of particulars about McAvoy’s situation, which — as Friedman famous — was far worse than what was initially anticipated after that sport towards Finland.

“Charlie McAvoy sustained an damage to his proper shoulder acromioclavicular joint in Crew USA’s 4 Nations Face-Off sport towards Finland on February 13,” Asnis’ assertion famous. “He underwent therapy, which was administered by Crew USA’s medical workers. Upon returning to Boston, he developed growing ache, for which he was evaluated by the Boston Bruins’ medical workers.

“After present process x-rays, MRIs, and bloodwork, he was recognized as having an an infection in his proper shoulder, in addition to a major damage to his AC joint. He underwent an irrigation and debridement process at Massachusetts Normal Hospital on February 18. He stays within the hospital, the place he’s being handled with IV antibiotics, and his situation is bettering.”

As reported by Ty Anderson of 98.5 The Sports activities Hub, Crew USA’s medical crew is similar group from the Minnesota Wild — who had been introduced in by Crew USA GM (and Wild GM) Invoice Guerin.

The Bruins have already got a gripe with the Wild medical crew, contemplating the medicals they obtained final yr concerning Pat Maroon’s restoration timeline had been very completely different from what they assessed as soon as they traded for him in March 2024.

Whereas Minnesota allowed Maroon to start out skating once more earlier than the commerce deadline in early March, the veteran winger didn’t make his debut for Boston till April 13.