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Predators refute Shea Weber ACL tear as 'erroneous broadcast and media reports'

Predators refute Shea Weber ACL tear as 'erroneous broadcast and media reports'

Predators defenseman Shea Weber is out for the remainder of the team’s first round series with what the team continues to call a “lower body” injury, after NBC Sports/TSN anchor Gord Miller noted Weber tore his ACL on Thursday night’s Nashville/Chicago broadcast.

The Predators wrote a strongly worded statement that basically bashed “erroneous” reports on Weber’s injury.

From the Perds, I mean Preds:

The Nashville Predators announced Friday that Captain Shea Weber will miss the remainder of the club’s Western Conference Quarterfinal series against the Chicago Blackhawks due to a lower-body injury the defenseman suffered in Game Two of the series. However, contrary to erroneous broadcast and media reports over the last 24 hours, he did not suffer an ACL injury. Further updates will be provided as they become available. 

So, he went from ‘day-to-day’ to now being out for the rest of the series – though granted it’s the same thing when there’s only two games left in the entire series. Chicago leads Nashville 3-2.

And The Tennessean’s John Glennon even went to Miller to ask, basically ‘hey dude, what’s up with that report?’ Such a situation is essentially beat reporter hell.

It doesn’t really change anything for Nashville. Weber’s injury didn’t look great. If he was anywhere near returning, he’d be doing some sort of skating activity – which at least hasn’t been reported yet by any sources around the team. Also, where there's smoke, there's fire, and Miller wouldn't just throw out a random body part on a national TV broadcast without getting some semblance of fact behind it. The location may be correct, but the details may be off.

Then again we’ve heard many different conjectures on Weber, between his ankle, his Achilles and his knee. But hey it's the playoffs, so lower body injury will just suffice for now, until the Predators get ousted -- or go all the way -- and then such CIA-level secrets will be revealed.

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