I wonder if he emerges as a top liner (his ceiling?) and he's matched with the Malkin Beast, could they add another one to make the Beast Line?Beast
or "the beasty boys"I wonder if he emerges as a top liner (his ceiling?) and he's matched with the Malkin Beast, could they add another one to make the Beast Line?
Sounds good.
He’s using those wrist hook things to hold the weight so I guess there’s still some healing to do there. Hopefully just superficial damage.
There’s some video on that IG channel of Almeida training too, he’s pretty slightly built.
Bellerive also had burns to his face, torso and legs. The most severe were to his hands. He says he was told at one point early on he may not play hockey for a year. He was also informed in the beginning stages that he’d likely require a skin graft for his hands — he healed sufficiently the following few days that the surgery was called off.
So much will come down to how his hands react after everything that’s happened.
“That was one of the biggest concerns right off the top when I saw them doing treatment on me and hearing the side-effects of what can happen,” said Bellerive, who had 25 points in 16 playoff games for Lethbridge last spring after producing 92 points in 71 regular-season matchups. “When you suffer a burn to your hands, they can tighten up and they can scar up, and I’ve been lucky enough that since Day 1 I’ve been able to do all the treatments. I think I’ve done a good job of doing all the therapy I can.
“The timelines they give you when you first get in there are one of the worst parts. They’re giving you all these wild numbers, talking about a couple of months and things. They want to give you worst-case scenarios. I’m lucky. I’ve made some tremendous strides.”
This is what I mean when I say Penguins curse at the beginning of the thread.
Like seriously one of our prospects potentially loses his edge because a random fire at a stag party that scars his hands?
Only on the Penguins.
"At this point I'm feeling pretty good physically," Bellerive, 19, said. "It's a little different on the ice. In the gym I feel really good. I've made massive progress since I've been back at it. The ice is coming but that's a bit of a process as well with my hands, getting everything back without damaging any of the new skin. I've got a long way to go but I've made a lot of progress."
Bellerive spent 12 days in the hospital, but his recovery process has him confident he will be a full participant at Penguins training camp in September.
"As far as I've come, as quick as I have, I don't think it's too far-fetched to think I'll definitely be ready to go by training camp and be full flight by then," he said.
The only adjustment Bellerive has had to make on the ice is to wear a glove under his hockey glove to prevent chaffing where new skin is growing.
"Whatever pain I struggle with, I have the green light to try to battle through it," he said. "It's not going to harm my recovery anymore. Just trying to get back to where I was before the incident."
"To think about the World Juniors, to think about the upcoming Penguins camp … those are the kind of things I'm reaching for," he said. "To have those in front of me as a goal, it's pretty motivating and something that definitely helps me get up the morning and go to the gym, and do that one more rep or take a couple more shots every day. Little things like that keep you motivated for sure."