You know he's a big prospect when there's an injury thread for him despite that fact he's not even drafted or in the NHL..

Ain't that the truth he has huge superstar upside. I traded Getzlaf for the 1st pick overall to grab him next year.

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12 Team Keeper League G/A/PPG/PPA/SHG/SHA/GWG/+/-/PIM Goalies: Minutes Played Wins Win/Loss % Save Percentage GGA SO (Goons only get PIM and +/- Points) 18 players total on each team. But only 6 total holdovers allowed 5 forwards and or defensemen and 1 goalie.

Starting line up
Forwards: Yakupov, Kopitar , Evander Kane, Eberle, Duchene ,Semin
Defense: Visnovsky,Erhoff, Hedman, Josi
Goalie: Carey Price, Dybnyk
Bench: Pavelec, Riberio, Gilbert, Bikens, Iginla

Holdovers: Duchene, EberleEvander Kane, Yakupov, Price, Kopitar

https://twitter.com/#!/KyleTheReport...87343304245248

The video link of the hit on Yakupov tonight http://t.co/m4Sw8XtD

The entire arena went dead quiet.

Took a huge hit to the head tonight. Had to be helped off. It looked terrible. Yakupov was seriously dazed!

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10 Team Points Only Limited Keeper Pool (keep any 12)

Top 12 Forwards, 5 Defense & 2 Goalies Count
Goals = 1, Assist = 1, Shutout = 3, Win = 2,

F: Malkin, Neal, Spezza, Benn, Hossa, Ribero, Purcell, Bergeron, Desarnais, Roy, Elias, Berglund, Briere, Dupruis, Versteeg
D: Karlsson, Letang, Pieterangelo, Kronwall, Pitkanen, Souray, Martin
G: Lundquist, Rinne

The good news for Yakupov is he probably won't take too many hits like that in NHL.

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START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller

I love Yakupov, and the hit was an elbow to the head, but young players who rule the CHL often need to adjust their style when they make it to the NHL. You CANNOT cut across the middle of the ice with your head down. Just ask Lindros. Taylor Hall does this all the time and he's been nailed a few times already. If Hall doesn't stop doing that, his career will be cut short. Yakupov needs to learn this too.

I hope he will be ok. I also hope that they don't rush him back into the lineup so that he has time to recover from this concussion. (Yes, I'm already calling it a concussion even though nothing is official). Poor kid.

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Forwards: J. Toews, J. Tavares, J. Eberle, J. Neal, A. Kopitar, T. Seguin, E. Kane, M. Duchene, J. Benn, M. Ryder, D. Brown, B. Marchand

Defense: A. Pietrangelo, K. Shattenkirk, A. Goligoski, PK Subban, J. Carlson, J. Spurgeon

Goalies: M. Smith, A. Niemi

Bench: R. Clowe, B. Dubinsky, M. Calvert, P. Mueller, D. Clarkson, M. Carle, M. Niskanen, P. Wiercioch, J. Halak, A. Lindback

Agreed SeaDawg. The only one in the arena that didn't see that hit coming was Yakupov, and that's because he was bent over looking at the puck cutting across the slot.

I'd be surprised if he's back before the Sting's 2nd round series (or at least gm 7 vs Owen Sound, if it goes that far). Based on talent and what I saw tonight, Sarnia should have no problem beating Owen Sound in the 1st round unless Binnington stands on his head. That should give Yakupov a good 3-4 wks rest before he returns.

And for the record, there was nothing wrong with that hit IMO. Principle point of contact was the head, but when you're skating forward, bent at the waist, looking straight down, your head is always going to be the first thing that gets hit. The one good thing is that it didn't look like his head hit the ice when it snapped back - so hopefully, its a concussion of the minor variety and he's back soon.

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G =1,A=1,PPG=1,PPA=0.5, SHG=1,GWG=1,PIM=0.1,+/-=0.25
Goalie cats (W=2, SO=3, SV=0.05)

F: Malkin, B.Richards, Voracek, O'Reilly, Downie, Burmistrov, Bailey, Mueller, Read, Boedker, Gomez, Adam
D: Green, E.Johnson, Elliott, Larsson, Jovanovski
G: Varlamov

I didn't find the hit overly bad either but in the OHL it's all about eliminating any headshots/contact to the head so I would expect Halmo to receive a suspension of some sort especially considering he's already on record.

Just the way Branch runs the OHL. Dougie Hamilton (not a dirty player) was suspended 10 games in January for a lesser hit. The rationale for the discipline was: check to the head, vulnerable player and player injured on the play.
http://ontariohockeyleague.com/video...cb900bfbf75982

Based on that hit alone, I would expect to see a similar suspension (whether I agree or not). You can make the argument that contact to the head was made, he was in a vulnerable position and well, the leagues' most premier player was injured on the player. Now, Yakupov DID put himself in a vulnerable position and the contact to the head was likely not intentional (hard to prove anyways) but in the OHL those things rarely matter.

Yakupov makes this kind of move usually once a game and he's had success eluding these types of checks or getting the shot off and standing up his opponent but he's going to have to limit this tendency to stay healthy.

All you have to do is browse through the OHL Discipline video to see that the OHL has no tolerance. Definitely different standards than most other leagues. Here's another (similar) hit (without contact to the head) http://ontariohockeyleague.com/video...8642a25f73927b

The player received 8 games.

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Deaner, seems like Yakupov has taken his share of abuse with Sarnia. Does he need to adjust his style for the big show or is it mostly bad luck?

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START = 13F, 6D, 2G
F Pts = G (2), A (1), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
D Pts = G (3), A (2), PP/SH (+1), GW (+2)
G Pts = W (3), OTL (1), SO (+2), SV (.10)

F: Backstrom, Kopitar, Perry, P.Kane, Spezza, E.Staal, Nash, Vanek, Couture, B.Ryan, Eberle, J.Staal, D.Brown, Lucic, N.Horton, Backes, Tarasenko, van Riemsdyk, T.Ennis, B.Gallagher, Armia, Teravainen
D: Karlsson, P.Subban, Pietrangelo, Shattenkirk, Doughty, Yandle, Chara, Kronwall, J.Johnson, Myers, J.Faulk, E.Johnson, A.Larsson, J.Morrow, S.Elliott, M.Rielly, Ceci
G: Price, Rask, M.Smith, Hiller