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Winter Dew Tour Injury Report [12/12/12]
2012-12-10The TNF PPO is over and Dew Tour is here. Qualifiers start today. Trading will be open until tonight sometime, so be sure to check out the injury report AND qualifiers lists before making final adjustments to your team.
Wing Tai Barrymore (Q): Wing Tai blew up at X Games last year, blowing both ACLs in one go. He's got youth and a long recovery period on his side. Unfortunately, he's also recovering form two blown knees. But he's been sliding around on snow.
Sammy Carlson (P): Sammy had that horrific fall at Winter X Games 16 Big Air last season, which ended his 2012 FFL campaign. But he's lookin' pretty good this year and seems to fully recovered. Still, you never know, once a knee gets injured, it's always prone to new injury.
Joss Christensen (O): One of the more prolific scorers from last FFL season (as an athlete and player), Joss underwent some operations this off season: Micro fracture surgery on one leg, scope on it later, and hernia surgery on his mid section. While not major procedures, the Park City native will need a strong rehab season and is opting out of the Dew Tour.
Simon Dumont (Q): The Dumont suffered a torn ACL at European X Games practice last March. Apparently his knee is solid, but he did just undergo wrist surgery last night. For anyone else that would definitely keep them out of Dew Tour, but it's the Dumont, so we're not sure. He might suck it up and compete. Consider him Questionable right now and if he competes, to be limited.
Grete Eliassen (D): G-Baby tore her ACL at the Winter Dew Tour Killington stop last January. She's been hunkered down in her home state of Utah rehabbing at the Center of Excellence, so she should be good to go come December. The bigger question mark is whether or not she will choose to compete, as she's been lessening her competition workload the past two seasons.
JF Houle (L): Quebecois JF Houle underwent serious shoulder surgery at the end of the season, after toughing out multiple contests where he was clearly limited by the ailment. The healing time on that surgery is upwards of four or five months, but the Houligan should be good to go.
Jen Hudak (O): Hudak has recently Twittered that she is "not competing this weekend but will be ready to rock at Copper Grand Prix!!"
Chris Laker (D): Chris Laker, amidst a breakout season, unfortunately fell prey to a knee injury just prior to Euro X. He's young and strong. With six-plus months under his belt and couple more to come, Chris should be good to go for Dew, even if it's in a limited capacity.
Kim Lamarre (Q): Yet another victim of the blown knee, Kim has been on a fitness rampage (as seen on her Twitter and Instagram). She's been rehabbing and doing physio with NHL players, so we're confident she'll be ok for this coming season. That said, she is still limited at the time of this post.
Devin Logan (IR): D-Lo suffered a blown knee this fall season, so consider her out for an extended period of time, likely the entire season.
Meg Olenick (Q): Meg fell prey to the knee bug this winter, as well as most everyone else. She's been on a serious rehab stint and all words point to her being very healthy. However, she is a multiple knee injury vet, so take that into consideration for this season.
Tucker Perkins (Q): Knees, knees, knees. Tucker did his knee last year as well, but seeing as he's one of the more impressive physical specimens on the tour, we have no problem in backing him being ready by December.
Kevin Rolland (Q): The two-time X Games gold medalist (in Aspen) was yet another big name to go down last year. So watch for Kevin to possibly be limited in the early season, but don't count him out for the entirety of the season.
Brita Sigourney (P): Brita blew her knee just before Euro X, giving her a leg up on names like Dumont and Perkins. She's killing it in the recovery world, so expect her to put up some numbers.
David Wise (Q): David did his knee a little later than most, so he might be questionable moving into the Dew Tour and Grand Prix, but all indications point to him being ready for X Games, if not the Grand Prix at Copper.
Torin Yater-Wallace (O): The Yater Bomb is about three weeks removed from serious shoulder surgery. One of the top FFL athletes last year will most likely be on the shelf for the first couple of events, aiming for a breakout around X Games or World Championships in Norway. We'll keep a close eye on him after Christmas.
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The rumor mill is abuzz about Torin Yater-Wallace not attending the World Ski and Snowboard Festival this weekend. TYW has lcoked up 2nd in the AFP pipe race and isn't in the mix for overall this year, so maybe the youngster is taking a much needed break.
Canadian Kaya Turski is looking to take her 5th straight AFP Women's Slopestyle title, with Dara Howell and Tiril Christiansen hot on her heels. If Kaya were to repeat, she'd remain the only female slope champ we've seen. Watch for her to bring the heat to keep her annual streak alive.
Tiril Christiansen of Norway, looks to be in the driver's seat for the AFP Women's Overall title. The title would cap off her impressive two-X medal season. Keri Herman currently sits in second, but she is rumored to be opting out of the AFP World Championships, giving T-Real the title.
Gus Kenworthy, who is expected to win his 3rd straight AFP overall title this spring, is also in first for the AFP Big Air title. He holds a respectable lead on Vincent Gagnier. While the math is a little fuzzy, and Vincent could conceivably take the title at JOI, expect Gus to put up a decent result to lock that bad boy up.
Nick Goepper holds a razor thin edge on UK's James Woods for the 2012-13 AFP Slopestyle title. With one slopestyle event left--the AFP World Championships in Whistler--expect both to be in attendance in hopes of snagging that title. Russ Henshaw is in 3rd, but by a decent margin behind Nick.
After David Wise's silver medal performance in the superpipe at Winter X Games Tignes, the Reno-native has locked up the 2012-13 AFP Superpipe title, narrowly edging out Torin Yater-Wallace. While this has no FFL impact, kudos goes out to Dave.
Park City big dog Alex Schlopy returned to competition at the Dumont Cup, and while he still felt a little funny from the flu and inner-ear issue he was suffering from at Euro X, he's all good now.
Andreas Hatveit suffered an unfortunate neck lockup which kept him out of X. While Jossi Wells was very happy Dre dropped out, the big Norwegian was bummed. But he should be good to go the rest of the year, if he decides to compete.
We just got word that Tucker Perkins dislocated his shoulder during practice today. We wish him the best on a speedy recovery.
The airlines weren't too kind to a number of competitors who flew to Euro X, losing their baggage. However Tom Wallisch, Joss Christensen and Tucker Perkins all received their bags late last night. McRae Williams (who isn't in FFL) still has not received his.
Russ Henshaw is usually in the business of staying on his feet, but today took a heavy spill that prematurely ended his practice session. but the Aussie recently tweeted that he's "stoked [his] body feels ok." He's got a green light for tomorrow's qualifiers.
Superpipe vet Jen Hudak will not be at Euro X. She is battling an unknown injury. Couple that with her somewhat lackluster season and she will not be living the French life this March. Hopefully we'll see Hudak back soon.
A number of people were scratching their heads to as why Maddie Bowman took a DNS at the FIS World Champs. The reason, she took a hard spill in practice resulting in some heavy bruising. Then she aggravated the bruising in warm ups for qualifiers. But not to worry, the Sierra-at-Tahoe resident should be good to go in Tignes.
Kevin Rolland--or Animal Mother, as he's being called now--took one of the hardest crashes in recent pipe history at the FIS World Championships in Norway. Not only did he get up, he skied his second run like a man. While suffering from soreness, Kevin should be ready to go to compete on his home turf next week.
Byron Wells, who has been bitten by the unfortunate injury bug quite a bit this year, is set to get real with it at Euro X. The kiwi has been relaxing and rehabbing in New Zealand of late, so he'll be primed and ready to put together a nice contest result in Tignes.
Just coming off of her shoulder surgery from her crash in Russia, pipe skier Brita Sigourney underwent micro-fracture surgery in her knee today. Smart money says she's utilizing her already shortened season to repair all her ailments, so she can move into 2013-14 healthy and ready to go.