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His knee was 100% healed coming into this season, it clearly wasn’t last season when he came back. He struggled last season due to lack of mobility with his bad knee. Why should that still be a factor when he comes back from a totally separate injury. Not saying to throw him to the wolves or that he won’t have some rust in his game. But to automatically assume he’ll suck this year coming back from an injury because he sucked last year coming back early from a totally unrelated injury is shortsighted.
When he came back last time, he had to wear a knee brace and was not ready to come back. This time the knee will be completely healed and no brace. Will it take time to get to game shape? Without a doubt, but when Sekera was healthy in his playoff year here, he was great. He is only 32
Andrej Sekera hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com