Horcoff's Left Arm

There was a point in the game where Horcoff barely skated off the ice, holding his arm and was limping his way onto the bench and some idiot Islander gave him a shot on the way by. How cheap is that? Cogliano gave him a shove back though and yelled at the guy, but still that was pretty disrespectful to see happen to someone who’s obviously hurting and as classy as Horcoff is, especially when the other team is winning.

Yah I just watched the replay again, it was Nate Thompson. It’s not quite as bad as I thought when I originally watched it. But here’s my mini-play-by-play:

At about 11:30 left in the 3rd, Horcoff gets dropped by a big hit by Sutton (maybe when his shoulder may have been hurt, if it even was hurt?). 10 seconds later on that shift, Horcoff throws a hit on Thompson in front of the Oiler bench and gets his stick up kind of high (didn’t see this on the replay, so I guess this is what Thompson was upset about). Thomspson spins away and as he does, Horcoff is looking down at the ice, noticeably exhausted and slowly going to the door with his stick in his right hand and not even paying any attention to Thompson who’s following behind him and gives him a “helpful shove” (not the sarcasm) through the gate on the way by.

Oddly enough, Horcoff did play one more shift after that, a really short one and on the PK. He didn’t look to be showing any signs of injury at that point though, keeping a pretty active stick, so I’m not sure if he really was hurt at all on the play.

Heh, I’m no doctor, so I can’t say for sure what precisely it is — I can only work with what the team gives me — but the way he’s holding his arm, it’s tight to his body, not moving it when he walks as you normally would. Shoulder would definitely be my guess — it’s sure not broken arm, because I’d have to imagine holding it perpendicular to the force of gravity without support would be murder — but until the team says something, that’s what I got.