Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Brobovsky has a groin muscle strain and is sidelined for four to five weeks. He was injured during the third of Tuesday night's 1-0 home win over the Lightning.
He was hurt making a spectacular glove save on J.T. Brown. After the save, he fell to the ice with his legs spread, his left leg jammed into the gaol post, and had to be helped off the ice.
Curtis McElhinney will be taking over in net for those next four to five weeks while Mike McKenna has been called up for Syracuse in the American Hockey League. Michael Chaput was sent down to make room for McKenna.
Bobrovsky is 10-11-2 this year with a 2.72 GAA and a .909 save percentage. He became the first Blue Jacket to win the Vezina last season after having a 21-11-6 record.
This is trouble. Bobrovsky was probably their top star on that team and the reason why they were still in games. Without him, I'm not sure where the Blue Jackets go. McElhinney cannot get it done alone and I've seen him try. And I'm not sure Mike McKenna is a guy to take the net for a certain period of time because he's also more suited to a backup goaltender. But the Blue Jackets have trouble beyond the net. They can't score and some of their stars are either hurt or in slumps. I don't know that they can get over this, and that's gonna hurt them. It's going to be a brutal couple of weeks for the Blue Jackets. They could possibly come out of this still in the playoff picture, but right now, it looks a little bleak.
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