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Originally Posted by Scornfire
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
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Not sure generous is the word.
So you're saying then ...
1) Team officials (medical and management) played him with the potential of it getting worse despite the fact he's a likely trade chip this summer. And ...
2) They are so clued out that they are letting said asset go to the Worlds and further diminish his asset value. And ...
3) Fans have a better handle on whether or not there are better options on an AHL team to play top pairing minutes in the NHL.
Ok ...