Joe Sakic

The captain of the Colorado Avalanche got injured this week. He is already out because of back problems, but this is another one of those injuries that is weird, but funny. Sakic lives in Colorado where it snows during the winter, and while using his snow blower he broke three fingers. He will be out another three months because he underwent surgery to fix his fingers and tendon damage. He still currently has a herniated disc in his back, which was expected to leave him out until mid-January. The past two years he has been plagued by injuries, and was even thinking about retiring last year because of surgery to fix a hernia. This is just another odd injury that took place while an athlete was at home, not even at their job. There have been a bunch of odd injuries this past year throughout all the sports, and for a week of so each athlete has been a laughing stock.

What comes next for Sakic, will he retire at the end of this year or come back for his 21st season? Then also, what will be the next odd injury that happens to one of these big time athletes?