Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic still nursing wrist injury
By Cory Buck
The Boston Bruins are looking to repeat last year’s regular season finish atop the Eastern Conference and make some more noise in the playoffs than they did last year.
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If they’re going to do that, they’ll need winger Milan Lucic to be at full health. Heading into training camp, that doesn’t appear to be the case thanks to a surgically repaired wrist having slowed down Lucic’s entire offseason workout program.
Lucic spoke with CSNNE and noted that the recovery from his injury hasn’t been easy and he’s only recently been able to return to doing even the most basic of workouts.
"“As far as upper body goes, it impacted everywhere. I hadn’t been able to do a push-up until a week ago because of it being right on the joint. It’s something you need to work at with rehab, and we still have some time before the season starts. As camp goes along you want to get your legs underneath you, but I also want to build my strength up.”"
The Bruins have been the victim of a cap crunch this summer and can’t afford to lose depth at the forward position, meaning they’ll have to be patient with Lucic and understand that he may not be 100% to start the season. Lucic had to wear a cast from hand to elbow most of the summer, which means he’ll almost certainly be behind on strength conditioning.
Still, Lucic is hardly worried. “I’m just working to get the strength back in it. It’s been a good last two weeks, and hopefully it still gets strong as the month goes along”
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