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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think it's more than fair to assume 3 things.
1) Andersson and team officials (including) medical came to the conclusion that he wouldn't make it worse playing. He wouldn't be going to the worlds if that wasn't the case.
2) The team felt Andersson at x% was till integral to their chances of making the playoffs.
3) Andersson wanted to play.
To assume any of the team not looking into the severity, or forcing the player to play against his will or playing the player when a better option was available ... is crazy to me.
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That's certainly a generous take
He was clearly not playing at a level that most fans would consider contributory to team success. And I'd really love to hear a doctor outright, in public, state that playing professional hockey on a broken/fractured fibula of any severity poses little/no risk of making the injury worse, there's hundreds of potential impact events in a game that could make it worse (Blocked shots, Slashes, Hits, the simple act of stopping or sharply changing direction), it's absurd.
Ya, the players always want to play, hockey culture has taught them from a young age that it's manly and heroic to do so, why are teams still allowing them? Imo, we'll be looking back on this kind of crap in 20 years much the way we do now about fighting and CTE