This is not something I imagined saying last summer when we gave Valtteri Filppula’s signing the “for some reason” treatment, but here we are: Valtteri Filppula’s injury casts a real threat to the Islanders’ fight for good playoff positioning and their chances of succeeding once they get there.
The Islanders on Wednesday morning announced that the 35-year-old will miss four weeks with an upper* body injury. (Codeword note: It’s his shoulder.) Later that day (and while I was finishing up a “Filppula’s injury hurts, they can’t stand pat, they should at least recall Fritz or something” post), they announced the recall of Tanner Fritz from AHL Bridgeport.