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Hm yes, I remember that old saying, "if your back is hurting, go out and play some hockey."
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Hm yes, I remember that old saying, "if your back is hurting, go out and play some hockey."
Even if we give their staff the benefit of the doubt and we accept that they don't believe he is likely to re injure the back by playing, I think they had to have known he wasn't where he needed to be to play to anything close to his capability. I believe it was a cynical calculation to tout him in their summer ticket drive. I mean, there he is on the front of their team calendar. It smells bad to me. And the media is playing along with their "duh, what's wrong with Brock" angle. It's sickening.
No it isn't rest that he needs, it's hard, purposeful training to get his core strength back. According to Brock himself again, it isn't soreness, but a physically weakened core that needs to be rebuilt via a full summer of training, which was delayed several months by the post op healing process. This is why we're seeing a sluggish player that can't get his shot off, and when he does, it just isn't the same shot. Throw away the summer shinny....doesn't mean anything.I wouldn't disagree with that. It does seem fishy how little talk there was about whether Boeser would be 100% entering the year based on how he's looked so far. But it also seems odd that if it was that bad he would play in beer leagues in the summer. Yea, there isn't the physicality, but there's still risk in any sports especially on skates.
It still seems most likely that any soreness now is just what tends to come from getting back up to speed after a significant injury and him being less than 100% is more about needing to build his body back to where it needs to be. If it's a case where more rest would help him at this point, then absolutely sit him, but with a lot of injuries, it gets to a point where rest isn't really beneficial anymore.
Re-aggravating injuries that aren't fully or properly healed is the kind of thing that creates chronic issues. Letting Boeser heal up fully before throwing him back on the ice could be the difference between a star player with long career or a flash in the pan who has one good year and never sniffs him potential again.
Correct, Brock says he is fully healed from the injury but missing more than half a summer of rehabbing/training and is in a physically weakened state. Radio silence on this from the boys in the media of course. Cricket noises when you tweet it at any of them.Not being 100% doesn't mean the injury isn't fully healed though, that's what seems to be causing the divide here. I can't imagine him actually playing or especially admitting to it that the injury isn't fully healed. Not being 100% to me is him saying he still hasn't regained his full strength and has some lingering pain. That's not quite the same thing, and is pretty common for some major injuries. But that usually just means he needs time to get his strength and conditioning back, which shouldn't be an issue in terms of playing unless he compensating for it and gets injured somewhere else.
No it isn't rest that he needs, it's hard, purposeful training to get his core strength back. According to Brock himself again, it isn't soreness, but a physically weakened core that needs to be rebuilt via a full summer of training, which was delayed several months by the post op healing process. This is why we're seeing a sluggish player that can't get his shot off, and when he does, it just isn't the same shot. Throw away the summer shinny....doesn't mean anything.
Seems like a reach for criticism..Even if we give their staff the benefit of the doubt and we accept that they don't believe he is likely to re injure the back by playing, I think they had to have known he wasn't where he needed to be to play to anything close to his capability. I believe it was a cynical calculation to tout him in their summer ticket drive. I mean, there he is on the front of their team calendar. It smells bad to me. And the media is playing along with their "duh, what's wrong with Brock" angle. It's sickening.
The issue seems to be a lack of full body strength and explosiveness, and a little bit of mobility, based on Brock's very limited disclosure, and just watching him for a few games now. It sounds to me like the only prescription for this is going to be a full summer of training next year. This is what he attributes his current weakened state to, not to any lingering effects from the injury itself. If you're saying it's unlikely he'll damage it further I'll take some solace in that at least. The question I have is whether or not it would have been prudent to hold him out until he was 100 percent physically and spare this trial. Of course it would have sunk their ticket drive last summer, I;m not completely naive. Pettersson wasn't what he seems to be yet.Seems like a reach for criticism..
Most likely has to work his way thru the scar issue that's resulted during the healing process...
If it's along the small muscles and soft tissue in between the bony protuberances of his vertabre, than that's not easily reachable via ART or other common hands on treatments... he has work his way outta it... just gonna take time.
It's possible that in the light of full blown NHL competition the limitations are exposed. That's actually what I have been assuming all along, but a setback is possible I guess. If that is the case, it really puts the spotlight on the team medical staff. Even I didn't think they were capable of being that irresponsable.Ok I just youtubed some beauty league footage and he clearly re-aggravated the back between the last game on August 22nd and the start of training camp on the 14th.
Yeah it's not exactly full speed but he is not labouring or tentative at all in that footage.
Ok, except whatever number it is below 100% doesn't matter - because he is not effective.
You can argue the semantics of the injury all you want but it's clear he's not himself. He's tentative on everything and sometimes he clearly goes to make a certain move and it ends up being nothing like what you know he intended.
He doesn't look remotely close to "working his way through it". Scratch him and re-evaluate the situation. The worst thing they can do is continue on the current path.
Hm yes, I remember that old saying, "if your back is hurting, go out and play some hockey."
I really hope this is sarcasm.Starting to get a Dixon Ward vibe from Boeser.
TSN was in the scrum when Boeser told them point blank, face to face, that he wasn't all the way back from the injury physically because he couldn't train for much of the off season. Incredible that just just ignored it. And not a peep about it from any of them since. It was as if they didn't want to hear it, that it was screwing with their narrative.TSN ran a segment dumping on Brock as well tonight.
Everyone just seems to be turning a blind eye to the injury.