NHL Injury Analysis: Offseason Injury Update

The offseason. A perfect time to sit back and relax, enjoy a few golf games, hang out with the family, and for our favorite fantasy players, to have surgery. This leaves some of us wondering if those players will be back in time to help pad our rosters with point scorers, or if we'll be gambling with a perpetually injured long-term IR player. No one wants to waste a draft pick, so I hope this helps a bit.

Marion Gaborik of the Rangers underwent a successful surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder June 6. Labral tears are repaired arthroscopically; this means the surgery was minimally invasive and helps to eliminate the chances of large non-healing incisions or an infection which can cause major recovery time setbacks. Inside the incisions, the surgeon uses a small camera to find the labral tear and identify the type of tear in the labrum. (The Rangers don't feel the need to release the type of labral tear Gaborik had, and in the end it doesn't matter nor do

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