Of course it’s all speculation. Lots of that on a hockey forum.
None of us have the details but it is curious that he’s waited so long for surgery it makes you wonder if he was refusing it. I like Klefbom, I’m not one of the guys that’s been ripping on him all year. I think when he’s in form he’s more than worth his contract. That said, he’s been an odd case since we’ve drafted him. Other than last year, he’s had physical issue every season since we drafted him. They come with the territory for pro athletes and they aren’t his fault. I’m not blaming him for them. All I was saying though is that if the speculation is true that he refused the same treatment that other players get for similar issues than that may be a reason for the team to want to move on from him. I’m not saying that’s the case but there does seem to be some speculation that this was the case.
My point is that even as speculation it is really a stretch. First off, Klefbom had probably had more interventions than half of the team and he's never complained about it. The staph infection didn't come from an operation, it was the operation that saved his foot and he has several times expressed a lot of gratitude to the medical team operating on him. Second, this injury (my speculation, which makes more sense imo
) is something he has played with for years now.
But, in the playoffs last year he got hit and it started to be very painful at times, so something happened there to aggrevate things. Of course, seeing as he has played with it for years he decided (well, let's not kud outselves, the medical team decided) to rest over the summer and then it should be back to "normal" again in the new season. What happened then was that he felt the pain already in TC and they decided to try meds/injections. That didn't work obviously, what did work though was the treatment he got in the break in December. After that he has been really good to almost any eye except the usual suspects. When the season was over according to the team (not hf) they took another look to see what to do. Operation was scheduled to fix it even though he is not suffering right now. Klefbom himself said that he think that the operation is
good because even though it is under control now it
could be necessary to play next season on meds. That said, he also said he didn't want to abandon the team, you play together in goid times and in bad times and once the operation was scheduled he obviously asked the medical team if he could play until that time, and they approved.
For me nothing in that story, in which I had to fill in very few holes from what has been revealed already, sounds as if he'd be against having an operation. Rather the opposite really.