Mac may not be able to help the USA against Canada thanks to a trip to MGH.
This bird may not be able to fly free with all the injuries it’s picking up.
Charlie McAvoy was one of a number of players yesterday who didn’t see action for Team USA against Sweden, and apparently he’s been admitted to Mass General to deal with an upper body injury, per the Boston Globe’s Jim McBride.
This is just another one of the major setbacks the US has faced coming out of the win over Canada, where they’ve had Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews out for undisclosed injuries, and only recently lost Brady Tkachuk during their 2-1 loss to Sweden. Mercifully, it appears Brady was only taken out of the lineup for precautionary reasons, but it’s just another body on a rapidly growing pile of injured men for the Red, White and Blue, with the Championship game ahead against Canada on Thursday evening.
For the Bruins side of things? Well, we’ve seen a couple of games where Charlie McAvoy has been out with the current B’s blueline depth as backup. The results were, and I am being extremely generous here; not good. McAvoy being out for any length of time is going to be putting some awful times on this defense corps which has been struggling throughout the year with just about every other part of the game.
It is for this reason that we hope that Mac gets back to 100% in short order; he’s got two teams counting on him to bounce back big, and losing him now would hurt big time.
Get well soon, Charlie!