Most believe his career is over unfortunately
Such as who?
Such as who?
A little too little too late. Torres would have been useful last year and this year to make us competitive enough for a good playoff run. Even if (big fat ****ing if) he comes back at 100% next year it will be too late for us given the direction the team is currently heading in.
Exactly, I understand nobody wants to go through surgery and doing it is never a 100% guarantee. But it definately has more of a chance of coming back then just waiting it out (which is what the sharks did wasting an entire season doing so)
He was not coming back this year if he had another surgery. His knee was infected and they had to wait for a while anyways. They hoped he could skate with a brace, which obviously didn't work out, but he wouldn't have been back this year period due in no way by decisions made by the Sharks.
They were talking about surgery 2-3 months ago. But were just waiting it out hoping that he could get to the point that he could go without it till the offseason where they would do the surgery any ways. I still say the sharks should of just did the surgery the moment the infection was gone. That way if the sharks had made the playoffs, you never know that extra little spark that torres brings to the team could of propelled the sharks a bit farther into the playoffs then they did without him.
Yea, the surgery was gonna have to happen sooner or later. Probably should've done it earlier just so he could get offseason training done but if the expectation was that he may get to play again this year, he might have pushed himself too hard, too early again and could've ended up risking complications.
Anyone in the market for a Torres jersey?
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I seem to remember Michalek's first ACL cadaver tissue procedure failed due to infection? By no means is Raffi 'out of the woods' just because it's surgery #2, in my opinion.
Mostly, I cry for the all the salaries that could've been better utilized. But that's not Raffi's fault.
With torres on the shelf injured the sharks still had 5+ million in cap space. If wilson wanted to do something he had the room to do it, he just didn't want to.
With torres on the shelf injured the sharks still had 5+ million in cap space. If wilson wanted to do something he had the room to do it, he just didn't want to.