Friedman: Horton may have "pretty significant injury"
/Elliotte Friedman was on Sportsnet 960 Tuesday afternoon.
On Nathan Horton’s injury situation:
“I was talking to another player and the player basically said to me, ‘Have you heard that Nathan Horton will never play again?’
“And I was like, ‘What?’
“So, I kind of looked into it and the word I’m getting is he’s there in Columbus and they met with him yesterday and he’s committed to rehab. They don’t want to have surgery on his back, but he’s committed to going through rehab. But there’s no guarantees here, I think is what we’re kind of learning. That this is potentially a long-term thing. It’s a pretty serious back injury. They’re hoping that working on his core strength will make him better, but there is the potential that this is a much more serious long-term injury than we realize.
“And I can find nobody who is willing to tell me that his career is in jeopardy, but it does sound like this is a pretty significant injury that if they can’t solve this simply through rehab, the surgical options might not be that good. So it sounds like we’re not talking about a short time thing here. We’re talking about something that could be pretty long-term.”
Source: Sportsnet 960/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey