Crosby......

[Bullfrog]

The team was humming along pretty well without him. I think he should of just taken the rest of the year and playoffs off. Focus on being 100% for the start of next season.

I can't help but think of Lindros and what Stevens did to him when he came back.

But what's the point of that if he and his doctors feel he's 100% right now?

 

[hockeyfan1]

The team was humming along pretty well without him. I think he should of just taken the rest of the year and playoffs off. Focus on being 100% for the start of next season.

I can't help but think of Lindros and what Stevens did to him when he came back.

But what's the point of that if he and his doctors feel he's 100% right now?

So far, so good.  Remember, the last time Crosby returned, he too was told he was ready to go, but he wasn't.  It's pretty obvious that he needed to re-evaluate and improve his sense of health which he did (with the appropriate medical authorities who could help him get back to feeling 100%).


Many were afraid for him to return just in case another 'hit' would have finished off his season again.  He did take some hits in his return game against the Rangers.  No more symptoms.  That was/is the proof, so far, that Sid is fine.

 

[pnjunction]

But what's the point of that if he and his doctors feel he's 100% right now?

I sometimes wonder if the doctors are cautious enough with this stuff.  We hear alot about symptom-free, but is not long after symptoms go away really the right time to jump right back into risky situations?  I think we rush it and the amount of repeat concussions is evidence of that.  Perhaps it should be months or even a year without symptoms.

Someone older told me about when they got a bad concussion as a young adult.  The doctor flat out said two years no contact sports period.  Now that might be way too long, or not, what was interesting is how he apparently told it very matter-of-factly that he would be foolish to risk another head trauma in less than two years. 

What I wonder is if that amount of time was really necessary, would we abide by it?  It would be hard to accept, but the truth isn't always agreeable.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Crosby reaches the 700 club...records his 700th NHL point assisting  on all three of Pittsburgh's goals, en route to the Penguins 3-0 victory.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/fleury-stops-21-as-penguins-blank-lightning/

 

[losveratos]

Just thought it was kinda cute. The whole as Crosby goes, the Pens go with him.

Both he and his team have the same number of points. 43.

 

[hockeyfan1]

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/why-sidney-crosby-is-so-hard-to-knock-off-the-puck/