Christian Dvorak wants to return to the game this season

With Roy’s injury, the Habs have 22 healthy guys: 13 forwards, seven defensemen and three goalies. The injury list isn’t necessarily as big as it used to be.

Joshua Roy isn’t officially on it, which leaves four guys who won’t play this year on the list: Carey Price (LTIR), Chris Wideman, Kirby Dach and Christian Dvorak.

When I say that the season of the four is over, it’s because that’s what the Habs have said. It didn’t say it word for word in the case of Price and Wideman, but we’ll read between the lines for these two, who wore the Habs jersey for the last time.

That said, there’s one player who wants to beat the odds: Dvorak.

As reported last night by Renaud Lavoie on TVA Sports, the center-forward doesn’t want to end a third straight year on the injured list.

So he’s working hard to get back in the game.

His personal goal, it’s pretty clear, is to be back in the game by the end of the season. – Renaud Lavoie

Dvorak and Dach both skated with the group recently. The American is hopeful of coming back from a torn pectoralis major and wants to force the medical group’s hand.

Will he succeed? Ideally, yes. The GM wouldn’t mind seeing Dvorak play at the end of the season, both for his market value (for what it’s worth) and to get Colin White out of the line-up.

Dach would also like to return. However, if the doctor who operated on his knee really wants to see him on the sidelines for eight months even if he feels fine, to give his knee time to heal, I don’t think he’ll give in and let the center play.

But we’ll keep an eye on it.

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