I honestly can't see this being a Calgary-specific issue where injuries go untreated for some time during the season and I definitely don't think team management and/or coaching staff anywhere are knowingly hiding or ignoring health issues when there are serious problems (such as issues requiring surgery). These are trained professionals in healthcare and on the other end professional managers who understand risk/reward in sports. 1 or 2 games in a "must win" like what Tanev did in Game 5 against the Oilers, I can see, but it makes zero sense from a risk/reward perspective to allow Mangiapane, for example, to play an entire season if there were ever a risk of him making the issue worse, plummeting their $17M investment in the process. What I imagine happens is what some have mentioned here - players say they feel fine, coaches believe them.
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