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Sabres Prepared That Jake McCabe May Miss Rest Of Season

February 21, 2021 at 2:27 pm CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg 5 Comments

The Buffalo Sabres were fearful after defenseman Jake McCabe left Saturday’s game with a lower-body injury. McCabe left the game against New Jersey midway through the third period after trying to hit Nico Hischier against the boards, but instead, his right leg buckled and he clutched his knee after going down. Head coach Ralph Krueger said Sunday that McCabe has left the team to return home and is expected to get an MRI today with results expected Monday. However, he doesn’t believe the injury looks good at all. Buffalo News’ Mike Harrington adds the team is preparing that he will be out for the season.

“I’ll be honest with you,” said Krueger. “Not very optimistic about the diagnosis that will come out of this. The lower-body injury is serious.”

If McCabe misses significant time, as expected, that would be a big blow to a team that has struggled to put together an effective defensive lineup and will miss their alternate captain and his defensive presence on the ice. While not an offensive player (one goal, three points in 13 games), he does make up for it on defense. He has averaged 19:11 of ATOI and has 22 hits and 15 blocked shots this season, while playing all over the lineup.

The team has been without Rasmus Ristolainen, who could miss extended time after a suffering through a significant case of COVID-19. Defenseman William Borgen is out day-to-day and the team has had to depend others to step up their game, including Colin Miller, Matt Irwin and now will have to depend more on Henri Jokiharju and Brandon Davidson to get by with McCabe likely to be out of the lineup for some time.

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  1. Josip Tomic

    1 year ago

    Hi Holger,
    Can you please fix Jokiharju first name? His first name is ‘Henri’ not ‘Henry’.

    ‘”Henry’ Jokiharju”.

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    • wreckage

      1 year ago

      Take your grammar policing elsewhere.

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    • bigdaddyt

      1 year ago

      Buffalo is about to get blown up so really doesn’t matter how you spell his name when he won’t be there by next year

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    • HockeyDude77

      1 year ago

      Hi Josip,

      Given your high regard for proper grammar, it would be appreciated if you utilized it yourself! As such, it should be “Jokiharju’s” first name (with an apostrophe “s”), and a comma needs to be added after “Henri”.

      Thanks, Bud!

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  2. joefriday1948

    1 year ago

    It does not matter as the team is so bad

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