McKenzie on Hall's injury and "electrifying" style of play

Bob McKenzie was on TSN 1260 Monday morning.

On Taylor Hall being injured on a type of play you like to see him make – driving toward the net - which might be what makes this injury sting the most:

“Well, it is. And I guess really, on balance, you’re thankful that it’s not worse than it was. Because I’ve got to be honest. When I was watching it, I said, ‘I think he just broke his leg.’

“Because he went into the post with such velocity and as it turned out, he maybe fortunately, he hit the knee joint. And there’s some give to the knee joint. But what the give is, is obviously ligament damage and that’s what he’s got. So it’s a 2-4 week injury. But I thought boy, if he contacts the post just a little lower on his leg, I mean, I don’t think you can avoid getting a broken leg in that situation. It could have been a lot longer. So I guess it’s a positive. But any time for the Edmonton Oilers without Taylor Hall can’t really reasonably be looked at as a positive, but compared to what it could have been and what I actually thought it was when I first saw it, yeah, I’ll take it.”

On Hall’s style of play:

“He’s electrifying. And to your point Dustin, I don’t know that there’s another player in the National Hockey League who goes to the net as hard as Taylor Hall.

“Even before he came to the NHL, during his draft year, I used to describe him to people as a guy who would take a bite out the crossbar with his teeth if he thought he might score a goal. That’s almost like a literal explanation of how he plays the game. It’s almost as if that net isn’t there, but he’s going to it and consequences be damned.

"I don’t know if he can back off it a little bit and come up with a different way to play, but he is certainly putting himself in peril when he goes to the net that hard.”

Source: TSN 1260/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey