This is VERY Good News... Panthers give MAJOR Update

Some very good news coming from the Florida Panthers a huge update on Alexander Barkov Most of you probably heard and yes everyone in the organization all the players coaches staff front office are very happy Especially after what had happened last season guys. This is Panthers digest I'm your host Greg Andrews comment like share subscribe hype up the video Appreciate you guys tuning in and supporting me the channel and the Florida Panthers Well as you probably have already seen the post from Jamison Olive and it started to spread like wildfire Everywhere, excuse me. Let me move my microphone a little closer. There we go It's good news for the Florida Panthers. It is not season-ending. We already knew that but the 10 to 12 week window was a bunch of BS Yes, I was reporting on that because that's what every single person out there was stating and it was spreading as well The news and the reason why my episode earlier today was like man This could be pretty bad is because they were taking a lot of time It had a very harsh reality feel like it did last season Where we were gonna get some bad news That's why it's taking a little bit longer because they're getting multiple opinions on this trying to figure out what they're gonna do Who's the best person to go ahead with whatever they were gonna do? That was the worry and As well as Barkov's reaction when he walked off the ice all of these things seem to play hand-in-hand with I think worst-case scenario But now the Florida Panthers have come out Not said exactly what it is, and I'm going to actually talk about what it possibly could be that was kind of speculated already Still waiting on an answer exactly what it is. But now we definitively have a time frame here Good news six to eight week recovery non-surgical rehab is in the plan for Alexander Barkov great news I'm gonna share a quote from Paul Maurice and others from the Florida Panthers on what they think about this right now But this is great news guys Great news Paul Murray said that's our best window could be a little less could be a little more It is a huge sigh of relief for this team if he hadn't been injured last year We would have thought six or eight weeks was a long time. I think last year was six to eight months So hey, we'll take it. I would have to agree with Paul Murray's Six to eight weeks does not feel like it's gonna be that long. The season is young. Thank goodness this isn't like halfway through the season and You know, we're trying to get points and vibe for a playoff spot or what have you? So now instead of it looking like Christmas New Year's We are going to be talking about probably somewhere near the end of November beginning of December great news Let's keep rocking here with some of the other Panthers Marie said he's our captain and we miss him. He feels it when he's not around He's probably the happiest of all of us With his recovery timeline. I'm sure he's thrilled to hear that Hey, you know, it wasn't as severe as he probably thought when the injury actually happened against San Jose I mean you can clearly tell he was very upset when he walked off the ice throwing his gloves down He did not look happy. This is good news. The menace said this it's barky He's one of the best players in the league amazing to hear good news. We just can't wait to see him on the ice again awesome, I Couldn't be more thrilled to hear this and I'm sure all of you are kind of feeling the same way than I am about this now This is where I'm gonna tell you guys 100% this is true because Jameson Olive who was one of the beat writers for the Florida Panthers. I'm not the guy This is him saying lower body out six to eight weeks non-surgical rehab. Paul Murray's best window. I already read you the quote I mean, this is terrific news. I'm Thrilled with this So the question remains now What exactly is this? And I'm gonna try to Point out something that this is speculating still. I'm sure we will hear exactly what the injury is sometime in the next Probably few days. I would say probably when the cats come back. Maybe they say it later today I don't know, but let's take a look at what this could possibly be. Shall we? All right, here are the different levels of the sprains to the MCL Right now it's looking like and which I had kind of figured and pointed out and a lot of people did say there's probably a Grade 2 MCL. This is where you partially tear your MCL Usually the superficial part of it Your knee will likely be loose when it's moved by hand and you probably have intense pain and tenderness along the inner side of your knee The potential for grade 3 sprain isn't out of the realm of possibility in terms of what they might throw out there But that's a severe tear complete torn Of the superficial and deep parts knee will be very unstable and loose Knee, you'll probably experience intense pain tenderness coming for someone to have other injuries with the knee Especially damage to the anterior cruciate ligament if they have a grade 3 tear There were other rumblings of other things going on with his knee as well, but I'm not gonna get into that But right now it's looking more like this is this is the sign of a grade 2 tear Let's keep going in terms of what is his rehab going to? Oh, excuse me time frame. Here we go This is what I want to talk about. The reason why I think it is a grade 2 sprain is because of the timeline It says a grade 1 minor tear can usually heal on its own time within 1 to 3 weeks grade 2 Grade 2 and grade 3 MCL tears, which are more severe need proper treatment or to heal which can include resting wearing a knee brace and doing physical therapy That's pretty much where we're sitting right now and here's the timeline this is the one I was looking for Come on, here we go There it is So, oh, I don't know why it's not showing it. Hold on guys. Give me a second having some issues Yeah, that's not right Well, anyways, here you go. So now it's showing you guys a grade 2 MCL sprain is roughly 4 to 6 weeks and a grade 3 that is severe could take 6 weeks or more Usually when you have a grade 3 tear, they will actually go and and do surgery Because there are it's not just the MCL that is torn. There's other things that are That's why I'm saying this kind of lines up perfectly with a Grade 2 sprain good news for the cats bad news good news because yes, he's still gonna miss time Unfortunately, but one of the things I wanted to talk about is exactly what are they gonna be doing with Alexander Barkov? Obviously, they're gonna be doing the rice regimen rest ice compression elevate. They're probably gonna put him into a brace Obviously, they're going to be doing rehabilitation to strengthen the muscles around the knee They're gonna let it rest. So that way hopefully it will heal on its own and to me I think it's it's a good move by the organization you don't want to have him miss any more time than he needs to and From what this says to me too, is that the MRI came back cleaner than they had if they thought it was gonna come back That's why they're saying rehabilitation is probably gonna be the best method For for Barkov to get over this injury however, I Am gonna say this and I've already said this before if that's the only part of his knee that is injured Do Do we run a little bit of risk of just going through the rehab process and being like, okay in six to eight weeks time He ends up coming back How's the knee doing? Obviously could be ten weeks. Sometimes it could be four weeks I've researched other athletes from hockey players to football players to basketball players that have dealt with MCL sprains ones twos and they've come back at four weeks Between four and ten weeks generally, it really depends on how hard These people work, you know how hard the athletes work So we'll see what happens Hopefully he you know, they take their time with this I don't think it's worth the risk of trying to rush him back That's the biggest thing for me is I hope this is not Put out there in terms of oh, well, we need to try and rush him back I don't think that's what the Florida Panthers are doing. I think this is a Smart move. Let's just rehab it if there's any instability in that knee when I'm around six weeks Keep rehabbing it two weeks later eight weeks. It's almost there but not quite give him another week or two It's okay. This team is deep enough to handle the season, especially this early on Guys, we have such a sample size of how this team has played so far. I'm not gonna look too much into it I know people are talking about was the kitchen trading for Brady could Chuck a good move for us. Yes It was guys. He will come into his own. Don't worry. I Hate that people are downing him right now after three games Give me a break. I can guarantee you like I said, he's gonna be great tonight I think Matthew could Chuck's gonna be great tonight. I think that first line if if it's Reinhardt Marchand and Brady could Chuck if they are the actual first line tonight, and it's not gonna be Matthew Bennett and for Hagee If that is the first line, I think they're gonna be stellar tonight We have a good chance to have a very solid game. Shut everybody up bar Kachuk's gonna look great. I hope that like I said marks from is in net, but it's gonna be a good one 10 p.m. Puck drop late night guys. If you can stay up try your best to do so cheer them on I think they're gonna come out just going off and then we're home first game at home on Saturday be a big one. Anyways guys, that's it comment down below. How do you feel about Barkov? Do you like the fact that there's no surgery involved? Do you think there is some risk by not having surgery and having him come back and just rehabbing it? How sure are you about? Hey the rehabilitation process will work and he'll heal and be a hundred percent or is there still that risk of him coming back and having more severe things happen That's a possibility. It's not out of the realm, unfortunately, but tell me what you guys think. I'm relieved I can't wait till he comes back But this Panthers team now has to look into do you want to bring in someone an unrestricted free agent like Tara Sanko? Or you just stick with what you got. I think we stick Let's ride it out. Let's see how we've done. We've got four points in our first three games doing pretty good four out of possible six points I like That's it guys comment down below So I found out more information and stuff and I probably won't do another video because they will probably divulge in the next 24 hours What the injury is exactly so hang tight. I'll have stuff coming out tomorrow until then go cats