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Injury Report: Shaw

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He’s not piling on the injured player he’s piling on Stan and his love of previous hawks injured/washed up or guys who can’t play anymore for one reason or another.
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Yes, I'm sure our GM sits there and says -- "who can I reacquire that has a unreasonably high risk of injury?"

Of course Shaw has a concussion history. A lot of guys do. Doesn't make them "washed up."
 
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Esq said:
Yes, I'm sure our GM sits there and says -- "who can I reacquire that has a unreasonably high risk of injury?"

Of course Shaw has a concussion history. A lot of guys do. Doesn't make them "washed up."
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Obviously that’s not what he says in his head, but he thinks he’s smarter than everyone and he’s gonna get this player at a cheap price and they will be healthy from then on. It’s just wishful thinking, too much risk, it’s kinda like many fans too much “positive” wishful thinking without a calculated thought of the risk that had presented itself many times in the case of DeHaan and Shaw.
 
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Maybe washed up isn’t the description, but if a list was made of the most likely NHL players to have a career ending injury, Shaw likely would have been No.1. It wasn’t some big secret.

It seems like Bowman was so desperate to cheat the rebuild and skip a few steps that he paid big for a player that had chemistry here and ignored the risks. Lesson: Never go full Holland.
 
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ColdSteel2 said:
Maybe washed up isn’t the description, but if a list was made of the most likely NHL players to have a career ending injury, Shaw likely would have been No.1. It wasn’t some big secret.

It seems like Bowman was so desperate to cheat the rebuild and skip a few steps that he paid big for a player that had chemistry here and ignored the risks. Lesson: Never go full Holland.
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Maybe it isn’t the description? Shaw was coming off a career year so there is no maybe about it. Washed up is just 100% the wrong description.
 
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Maybe it isn’t the description? Shaw was coming off a career year so there is no maybe about it. Washed up is just 100% the wrong description.
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I agree, on his way out of the NHL is the description.
 
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BK said:
Savard played 41 games in his 2nd to last season.

Shaw’s games missed were not all concussion related either. He has injuries.

No this is a bad take.
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The take was that Shaw would probably poll as the most likely player to suffer a career ending injury, not your frivolous argument about use of descriptive words.
 
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I can’t say I remember a lot of people predicting this season ending and potentially career ending injury.
 
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I can’t say I remember a lot of people predicting this season ending and potentially career ending injury.
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No shit. Why would anyone do that in that environment?

A Montreal fan posted their consensus opinion, which was Shaw seemed like he was a concussion away from his career ending.
 
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Shaw was not washed up. He cannot help what is happening to him and it was a bad descriptor by me. I was trying to point out Stan’s propensity to go back to the old ‘Hawks well often with little to no success.
 
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I am not a Bowman fan anymore and like Q was I think Bowman is past his expiry date in Chicago. That being said I do not blame him for the Shaw trade. It was a solid idea at the time and with Shaw coming off a career year he had something this team sorely needed. You could use the concussion excuse as a reason you wouldn’t trade for Sidney Crosby but everyone in here would love to have him. Bad luck for Shaw and the team but I don’t pin that one on Bowman. Now the Seabrook contract is another story.......
 
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ColdSteel2 said:
No ****. Why would anyone do that in that environment?

A Montreal fan posted their consensus opinion, which was Shaw seemed like he was a concussion away from his career ending.
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Seems like a lot of bullshit hindsight in both teams fan bases to me. Easy to say now that we all saw it coming.
 
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Seems like a lot of bull**** hindsight in both teams fan bases to me. Easy to say now that we all saw it coming.
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Sorry about the way I responded. Your take is fair if predictions are a prerequisite to criticizing later. I respectfully disagree with that.
 
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ColdSteel2 said:
Sorry about the way I responded. Your take is fair if predictions are a prerequisite to criticizing later. I respectfully disagree with that.
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Well I could have worded it better.

Anyway, I am not absolving anyone of criticism entirely just saying it’s more forgivable to make a mistake when more foresight is required.
 
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