The Petey Predicament

[donlever]

Not directed at you Kenji.

I count at least a dozen injuries in EP's time with us.

Every player in the league has some sort of nagging injury they are playing through.

Some more successfully than others...always it has been so.

The game and schedule (especially in an Olympic year) equate to such a phenomenon.

Is this fucking guy a man or a mouse?

Now I'm no huge Linden guy (as a player) by any means but...

In a 2008 article with NHL.com, teammate Cliff Ronning summed up Trevor Linden’s leadership on the Vancouver Canucks’ 1994 Stanley Cup run perfectly: a leader who was willing to sacrifice personal comfort and health for the good of his followers’ play and morale. His perseverance in those games served as inspiration for his teammates in the series that they would ultimately and heartbreakingly lose: “I broke my hand in that game,” Ronning recalled. “But how do I say I can’t play when there’s a guy who has played four games with broken ribs and torn cartilage and he’s dropping his shoulder into guys to make plays?”


He will play. You know he’ll play! He’ll play on crutches! He will play! And he’ll play at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night!”


....this is pro hockey Elias.

Drop your nuts ffs....

[Meds]

1994 - 2024

30 years of declining toughness in our society made it acceptable to extend a muffin to the most lucrative deal in team history and then trade the alpha male with a bi-weekly surly attitude.