There's some serious lack of understanding professional sports protocol in this thread. It's so far beyond laughable to state this is more Mason's fault than the Hextall/Training staff. It's actually sad, these losses piling up must be really taking a toll on the ability of some people to reason around here.
Mason was just let down hard by his medical staff who led him to believe he was fine to play regardless of soreness you could spot and hear from outer space, theres no doubt that he vocalized it. The kid strapped up his pads because he was absolutely expected to, obviously not forced, but anyone whose not a complete idiot knew he should have sat out against NJ after the previous few days. Considering the organization has 12 million dollars invested in him from now over the next couple of seasons, he must be in a whole ******** of trouble from Hexy and his medical staff for being sooo irresponsible to play injured and further damage his bottleneck asset? Just laughable stuff.
Sorry but the fault is on Hextall and his staff of proven incompetents, not Mason. Or is what you're saying that he should have downright refused to play? You've got an aggravated core injury that everyone and their dead grandmas knows about, meanwhile your medical staff is clearing you on your notable soft tissue damage, your GM is expecting you to play because of that and your coach is putting you down in ink. He was physically able to dress and play but the gamble lays in the hands of the General Manager and Hextall got exactly what he so clearly was just begging for. Playing with fire but atleast we'll burn to ash without Mase in net and get that better pick, Hex is really doing well at this so far....
You're basically just pulling all this out of your ass. God forbid anyone say anything negative about Mason or even hint that it's not the organizations fault, white knights won't allow that.
Your entire accusation is 100% based on the assumption that the medical staff screwed up, which is far from being a sure thing. Clearly, since they messed up in the past, everything they do now is wrong and they're just out to hurt the players? Please.
If we use a little bit of common sense and assume that the medical staff did their jobs then we would also assume that Hextall was under the impression that he's completely fine to play. Hextall has two sources of information about this, the medical staff and Mason. If the staff say he's cleared and Mason (the only person who really knows what he's feeling) doesn't contradict that then there is no reason for Hextall to think otherwise.
Or would we prefer that Hextall assumes that the medical staff is incompetent and that the players are liars so he keeps everyone out an extra couple of weeks after they're cleared to play?
Also, like you said, they have a bunch invested in him since he's the starting goalie on a new contract, it makes no sense to assume they pushed him to play while injured when the season is already basically over. Just another thing that doesn't add up in your little scenario.
You have an agenda to blame the medical staff and Hextall, just like that idiot Seravalli. Unfortunately for both of you, there's no proof to back it up, so acting on the assumption that it is true just makes you both look like raving lunatics.
