{"id":27469,"date":"2023-04-18T01:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/matt-duchene-says-he-initially-worried-finger-injury-was-career-threatening\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T01:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:48:36","slug":"matt-duchene-says-he-initially-worried-finger-injury-was-career-threatening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/matt-duchene-says-he-initially-worried-finger-injury-was-career-threatening\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Duchene says he initially worried finger injury was career-threatening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ac_73062100\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme first_text_block\">\n<p>As Nashville Predators forward Matt Duchene skated toward the bench after taking an errant puck off the hand in a March 26 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, he knew prognosis wasn\u2019t good.<\/p>\n<p>Duchene pulled his hand out of his glove to see the bone sticking out of his left ring finger and the tip of his finger still inside the glove. Speaking to reporters Sunday during locker cleanout day, the 32-year-old winger recalled wondering if the injury would end his career prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really scary,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/predators\/video\/locker-cleanout-duchene\/t-277437416\/c-16682859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he recalled<\/a>. \u201cI wasn&#8217;t sure if it was career-threatening or not. I was pretty emotional when it happened. I still wake up every day and can&#8217;t believe it went that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ac_73062102\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme \">\n<p>While Duchene is expected to make a full recovery, doctors couldn\u2019t quite save his finger. Two surgeries later, a nail and pin hold his finger together while the fractured bones heal. Fortunately, he suffered no torn or damaged tendons.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors believe he could be ready to resume hockey-related activities in June and he should be ready for the Predators\u2019 training camp in September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest, it didn&#8217;t hurt as bad as other injuries I&#8217;ve had, but it just felt weird,\u201d Duchene said. \u201c\u2026The doctor asked where my glove was, and I looked over and said, \u2018Why? Do you think there\u2019s a piece of my finger in there? I didn\u2019t know I had lost part of the finger. I thought it just crushed it. They were hiding it from me, so they went and grabbed the tip out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his injury, Duchene was on-pace for the fourth 60-point season and fourth 25-point season of his career. His 22 goals were a team-high and his 56 points were second-most on the Predators behind captain Roman Josi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/matt_duchene_says_he_initially_worried_finger_injury_was_career_threatening\/s1_13132_38709254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Nashville Predators forward Matt Duchene skated toward the bench after taking an errant puck off the hand in a March 26 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, he knew prognosis wasn\u2019t good. Duchene pulled his hand out of his glove to see the bone sticking out of his left ring finger and the tip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}