TheClap
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- Jul 20, 2014
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Datsyuk needing the procedure was known at exit meetings. He choose to delay it, part of it I think was he was hoping doing it later might get them to relent on him canceling his deal after year 1. I remember hearing at the time a part of it was also the Shaq esk, I have been hurt on company time, I want to rehab on company time.
We know a little more about his attempts to bail so that makes more sense.
The medical team allowing Weiss to attempt playing through a sports hernia is shockingly bad.
First I ever heard that, and googling such allegations doesn't yield much. In fact, the only 2 things I found were this from this NHL.com article, in which Ken Holland had the following to say:
“We weren’t sure what was the matter with his ankle at the end of the year,” Holland said, of Datsyuk. “He had some concerns about his tendons in his ankle and we felt with four, five, six weeks of time off it should heal. It didn’t heal.”
Datsyuk has ankle surgery
Which directly contradicts your speculation.
And article number 2 comes from the "trustworthy and esteemed journalist" Jeff Moss, in which he speculates why Datsyuk waited.
The Guilt of Pavel Datsyuk and the Innocence of Sergei Fedorov – Detroit Sports Rag
So you got Ken Holland saying "we felt it would heal with rest," obviously referring to team management and doctors.
And then you have Jeff Moss, the origin of the hilarious "Swedish Mafia" scoop.
So I'm gonna go ahead and call BS on that one. Sounds like a lot of after-the-fact sour grapes speculative bullcrap from someone still bitter over how Datsyuk left to me.