Samuel Honzek visits Vancouver Giants teammates, whereas harm rehab continues

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Injured Vancouver Giants star ahead Samuel Honzek was again on the Langley Occasions Centre Friday night time however a return to motion for the Calgary Flames draft decide isn’t imminent.

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Honzek (decrease physique harm) has been rehabbing in Calgary since getting damage in a Flames preseason sport on Oct. 4. The Flames used the No. 16 total decide in final summer season’s NHL Draft to land Honzek, who was coming off a 23-goal season with the Giants. Preliminary phrase out of the Giants is that Honzek, 18, might be sidelined six to eight weeks.

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Honzek is merely spending the weekend hanging out with the his Giants teammates however will return to Calgary subsequent week to renew his rehab, Vancouver coach Manny Viveiros stated after his group’s 3-2 loss to the Victoria Royals on Friday.

Vancouver’s at Victoria tonight after which comes again to LEC on Sunday to host the Kamloops Blazers.

“From what I perceive from speaking to him and everybody else, he’s progressing rather well,” Viveiros stated. “The subsequent step for him is to get again on the ice. He’s nonetheless going to be a while.”

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Friday’s sport was a peculiar one, as Vancouver (3-6-1-0) appeared to have a management of proceedings for almost all of the opening 45 minutes. Victoria (7-6-0-0) received two targets 47 seconds aside halfway via the third interval, and the Giants might by no means reply.

“There have been loads of good issues. I preferred the way in which we performed, I preferred the way in which we created possibilities. We made little errors on the incorrect time and it price us,” Viveiros stated.

A number of Giants didn’t see very a lot ice within the third interval. Included in that group was 16-year-old ahead Cameron Schmidt, who has been Vancouver’s most harmful participant at factors this season. Schmidt is leaving after Saturday’s sport for the Underneath-17 World Problem in Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI. He’ll miss at the least 5 Vancouver video games.

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“I simply wished to shorten our bench. We had been one aim forward and I wished to get a few of our guys to shut it out, so to talk. On the finish, we wanted a aim so that you wanted to shorten your bench once more, since you need to get some guys on the market to get one thing going for you,” stated Viveiros.

He reiterated that no gamers missed motion on account of harm down the stretch. “That’s the way in which it occurs while you get into shut video games like that.”

Vancouver centre Jaden Lipinski took both a puck or stick within the mouth early within the sport, left for medical consideration and returned to the sport with a full face masks. No phrase on what number of stitches he obtained. Viveiros says that the Flames 2023 fourth rounder is predicted to play tonight in Victoria.

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