Wings’ Holmstrom Concerned About Sore Groin

After an MRI was conducted on Thomas Holmstrom’s achy nether region on Tuesday and deemed “inconclusive” the team sent the results to a specialist in Philadelphia for a second opinion, where he took one look and said:

“I got nothin’.”

No, really, the team did send the results to a specialist in Philly, where he’ll further scrutinize the MRI in the hopes of finding something for Holmstrom to be worried about. Said Homer about the pain:

“I’m really concerned. It’s getting closer and closer and I don’t know what to do and the playoffs aren’t that far away either. So we better figure something out.”

Apparently local doctors couldn’t find anything wrong, but according to Holmstrom “they couldn’t find it last time, either, when I was sore. So we’re sending it to a specialist. So we’ll see tomorrow.”

Holmstrom said the problem arose about a week ago.

“Something happened in the Columbus game, and I was really sore the next day, and then I pulled it in the last 10 minutes in the Dallas game, too,” he said. “Since then, it’s been really sore. There is something there for sure. I tried to skate yesterday, and it was just getting sorer and sorer the longer I skated.”

Holmstrom played through the pain and suffering in the playoffs last spring, but said “I don’t want to do that again. That was no fun. I took injections, and you can’t start taking injections now; it’s February. You can’t take injections the rest of the season.”

But when asked what he thought of this mysterious injury, head coach Mike Babcock had the following to say:

“Tommy sat down in my office at the start of the year and thought he wasn’t going to be able to play this year because his knee was so bad, and then he played in Game 1. So he’ll be back, and he’ll be playing.”

So it is written (presumably in Holmstrom’s contract anyway), so shall it be done.

Posted by Paul Benvin on Feb 3 2009. Filed under Central, Detroit Red Wings, Injury Report, Western Conference. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.