The Geese have made a pair of roster strikes upfront of their recreation Saturday evening versus Toronto. The staff introduced that winger Alex Killorn has been activated off IR. To make room on the roster, winger Brock McGinn has been positioned on IR retroactive to Feb. 10 with an upper-body damage.
Killorn is in his first season with Anaheim after signing a four-year, $25M contract with them again in July. Nonetheless, it’s been a marketing campaign riddled with accidents. The 34-year-old fractured his finger within the preseason, inflicting him to overlook the primary month of the season. Then final month, he underwent arthroscopic knee surgical procedure. Thankfully for him and the Geese, Killorn recovered extra shortly than anticipated as he was speculated to miss 4 to 6 weeks and got here again a bit earlier than the four-week mark.
In between recovering from these accidents, Killorn acquired off to an honest begin offensively together with his new membership, amassing 19 factors in 34 video games. Whereas these numbers are down from a yr in the past, it might have been unrealistic for Anaheim to count on Killorn to beat his career-best numbers from a a lot deeper Tampa Bay staff in his first yr with a rebuilding membership that was anticipated to be close to the underside of the league within the objective division.
As for McGinn, he final performed again on Jan. 25, making the location again to Feb. 10 a little bit of an odd alternative. Nonetheless, for the reason that placement has been dated again by per week, he’s eligible to be activated at any time. The 30-year-old has had a restricted function this season, suiting up in simply 24 video games the place he has three factors in 37 hits whereas averaging simply over 11 minutes per recreation.
