So now all the sudden the medical staff that no one on here knows anything about is the worst in the league. Go figure.
I think all GMs and coaches are prey to the feeling that if they believe an injury doesn't exist, then it doesn't. I imagine this makes life very difficult for a medical staff working with a sports team. Whether it was Lou prevaricating to the media or what, there were certainly a lot of people who were out for longer than it was originally thought - Paul Martin's the big example, but Salvador sure disappeared in 2013-14, Matt Taormina missed the entire rest of the season in 2010-11 when I believe he was initially out 6-8 weeks (google says he broke his ankle in two places, one healed, one didn't, so he had surgery on it 2 months after sustaining the original injury), and Severson was out '4 to 5 weeks' after sustaining an ankle injury and it ended up taking 10 weeks for him to return. I'm sure there are similar examples if you go back farther. So is that the medical staff's incompetence or is it Lou purposely underestimating, or is it Lou wishing that the guy would get back quicker, doctor be damned? Who knows. Either way, there's a LOT of this in pro sports medicine so I can't really put it on the Devils' medical staff, and obviously medicine isn't an exact science as people heal at different rates and that can't be predicted.