Davidson: Future still uncertain, but Horton "a little bit better"

Columbus Blue Jackets exec John Davidson was on Montreal’s TSN 690 on Wednesday afternoon.

On Nathan Horton’s health and if his injury started in Boston and got worse when he came over, or if it happened in Columbus:

“Actually, no. When he came over the shoulder thing was the issue, and he got through that and started to play for us at the end of last year. Everything went pretty well. He was still banged up. I think he had the abdominal thing too.

“And then we fully expected him after having a real good summer to come in healthy and ready to rock. Ready to go. And all this just sort of came out of nowhere. It’s slowly getting a little bit better, but not to the point where he can start working out with the team or anything like that. So we’re not 100 percent sure where that’s going.

“It’s really too bad. He’s a good kid. He really liked Columbus. He liked the teammates. The games that he did play, we could see what kind of player he was. Great shot, big man, real good skater. And of course he’s had dependence for being able to score big goals in big spots, and that always helps. But it is what it is. You just deal with it.

“You know it’s nuts in our business when you run a hockey club like this, you expect what I term curveballs. If go a day without a curveball, you’ve had a good day. We get curveballs every single day, about all different things, from A to Z, and you’ve got to deal them. This is a big curveball, the Horton thing, and we’ve just got to deal with it.”

Source: TSN 690/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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