#ilya mikheyev

[dmercer91]

hi, nucks <3 (2023/11/09)

#e talks! #me over text earlier saying that ‘i was within kicking distance of quinn hughes’ #the van fans were all so hype and i had such a time #elias pettersson #brock boeser #ilya mikheyev #dakota joshua #ian cole #quinn hughes #vancouver canucks #canucks lb

[sedinsinshootouts]

shutout celly!

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[makarshughes]

ready for 12:30 pm puck drop / march 31, 2024.

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[firechilde]

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[lovetorn]

#i am sobbing #kuzy 😭😭😭 #he looks like his mum dressed him for the day 😭😭😭 #girl u are so cute #vancouver canucks #andrei kuzmenko #andrey kuzmenko #vasily podkolzin #ilya mikheyev #vitali kravtsov #hockey #nhl

[tmlgoals]

@mapleleafs: best flow on the team

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[archaicbro]

11/9/2022 OTT @ VAN

Ilya Mikheyev makes a sales pitch to Ryan Reynolds

#ilya mikheyev #canucks lb #vancouver canucks #hockey #nhl #potato post #ryan reynolds

[andreykuzmenko96fan]

#andrei kuzmenko #andrey kuzmenko #Ilya Mikheyev #vancouver cancuks #Vasili Podkolzin #canucks #video #22-23 #golf #65 #92

[periodicavocation]

first 🐍 playoff goal ft. bro move by engvall

leafs @ bolts | game 3 | 06.05.22

#ilya mikheyev #pierre engvall #david kämpf #toronto maple leafs #leafs #pa.gifs #hug! #sc 2022

[anzekopistar]

No thoughts, just happy Ilya Mikheyev

𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝘃𝘀 𝗧𝗕𝗟 | 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟭

#Toronto Maple Leafs #Ilya Mikheyev #* #playoffs22

[stereax]

#beat reporter stereax #ilya mikheyev #vancouver canucks

[masoncarr2244]

Ilya Mikheyev - Vancouver Canucks at. Ottawa Senators 11/09/23/

#vancouver canucks #ilya mikheyev #canucks #nhl #hockey #nhledit #hockeyedit #gif #gifs

[csykora]

Hello! I guess I'm a few days late on the news but it turns out that Ilya Mikheyev (Canucks) is getting ACL surgery, ending his season. The bit that really surprised me was that he apparently injured it in pre-season and wanted to keep playing on it, realising "[he] could play without causing any more damage" (qt from twitter). Of course, it's his body, but something about that strikes me as a little off?

You seem to know a lot about stuff like this and I guess I just wanted to ask... is playing on an injured ACL a little fishy, even if Ilya says it was his choice and wasn't pressured by the team into continuing?

This is one where it's important to remember that I am not his trainer (only friendly local bone witch).

But--yes, it's very possible that someone could skate with an ACL tear without worsening the injury.

The anterior cruciate ligament is one of two ligaments inside the knee joint, connecting the femur in the lower leg and the tibia in the thigh. It starts at the front of your tibia and travels backward through the knee joint to attach to the backside of your femur, crossing with the posterior cruciate ligament, which does just about the opposite. Two more ligaments stabilize the joint on the sides.

The way you're most likely to injure your knee in hockey is actually by tearing one of those two ligaments. When an impact pushes your lower leg or knee out to one side, the ligament on the opposite side has to stretch and can easily tear. That's one of the--if not the--most common injuries in hockey, and is why knee-on-knee contact is taken so seriously.

The ACL, meanwhile, prevents the tibia from popping forward out of alignment with the femur as your knee bends, or from rotating too much to either side. It doesn't do as much for the stability of your knee, so someone with a torn ACL is usually able to stand and walk without much trouble. But when they start to run, pushing off the ground with the muscles of the thigh during each stride, the missing connection between the back of the femur and the tibia will disrupt the transfer of power along the leg. They can't push off with as much power as before. When they try to turn or stop, the tibia can also rotate or move too much out of joint. Sudden changes in direction while running, starts, and stops are all more difficult to control, making ACL injuries very difficult for football and basketball players.

Skating works your leg differently than running does. Because ice has less friction, you're able to get more horizontal glide from less up-down push; you don't need to push as powerfully off ice in every single stride as you push off the ground. You're also carrying your weight over the narrow edges of your blades, rather than the wider surface of your foot, and instead of rolling from the ball of your foot to your heel throughout your stride, hockey skates typically keep your ankles more 'locked in'. You control your balance over your blades more by shifting your hips than by bending your knees.

The muscle groups that require the ACL just aren't as important for skating, so you could potentially skate okay with an ACL tear, and you aren't as likely to move in a way that would tear it further as you would be while running. It's also important to note that if a ligament tear requires surgery, that usually means it was already torn as much as it can tear, and it was never going to heal on its own. Ligament tissue just gets so little blood flow that it doesn't really heal, so it's not the same as having a cut or a broken bone that was starting to heal and then re-opening the injury. Ligament and tendon injuries can be more clear-cut, in that way. The quote about not damaging it further is likely true.

Other, braver people who watch the Canucks have pointed out that Mikheyev has been slower since the injury. Specifically, when he first goes into a breakaway or a long open stretch of skating. Those first strides are when you really build momentum, and you do push off more like a runner. So you won't necessarily be as good a skater on a torn ACL, but yeah, you can technically skate.

In this scenario, I don't think there was unreasonable risk for him to play on the injury. I'm also somewhat pleased that what he's said suggests there was discussion around it specifically as a ligament and an ACL injury; it sounds like it was OKed because of the uniqueness of the injury, so I'm not as worried as I usually would be that the fact he played with this injury will be used as an example of how other players should play through other injuries.

#ilya mikheyev #vancouver canucks #hockey injuries

[makarshughes]

col @ van | 03.13.24

#ilya mikheyev #brock boeser #vancouver canucks

[mitchmarner]

MICKEY :(

#:(((((((( gonna go cry now #ilya mikheyev #toronto maple leafs

[nylwnder]

GAME 6 HYPE, LFG BOIS 😌

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