Player Discussion Auston Matthews (Captain Edition)

[Ports]

It’s nonsense that the injury can’t get worse with wear and tear because he played. And it got worse… and he had to stop playing.

Yeah because you know better than the team’s medical staff. What is the injury exactly ? Can you even answer that question. Plenty of injuries are painful to play through but that doesn’t mean the player is putting their career at risk by playing in discomfort. Half the players in the league play games during a season that way. If players couldn’t play when hurt we’d be watching the Marlies most night.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Just not a guy to get it done when it counts, like Vince Carter

This is the perfect comparison. He's a gutless skilled malcontent like Vince. The saddest part is that both were genetically gifted unlike smaller players. Just waiting for him to miss playoff games for stupid reasons like Vince...

I don't recall a citywide creative writing contest to explain away why Vince couldn't play though, so there's one difference between them.

 

[ACC1224]

Then you’d be dealing with a months long injury and a freshly debilitating injury.

Which is the ‘months long’ one and which is the ‘debilitating’ one?

 

[Nineteen67]

Matthews is on IR….more to come

 

[Menzinger]

Paper move

 

[3blizzard4]

Paper move? More like paper thin, am I right?!

 

[Warden of the North]

Disaster this regular season has been so far.

His shot has not looked right since game one.

 

[Willchel Marlynder]

Shut him down until he's actually healthy bland ready to play. Playoffs are all that matter, not the regular season and definitely not the 4 nations cup.

 

[Antropovsky]

He got his contract now we'll see if he can earn it.

Seems since he signed he takes more games off.

Maybe headed to the Malkin area code.
Several early career awards, and just an extremely good player since.

... he scored 70 just last season and has been injured most of this season. Kind of early to say his game is goinf in the direction of just a really good player.

 

[ULF_55]

... he scored 70 just last season and has been injured most of this season. Kind of early to say his game as become just a really good player since.

Didn't I suggest could be headed that way?

There are other star players who had early success and didn't keep it up, some for injury like Cam Neely.

 

[Aashir]

the team (obviously) looks worse without him and his 13.25 million dollars. We can't really do much offensively, and our pp sucks. We have one shooting threat, and it's negated by the fact that rielly is passing to him

from an entertainment standpoint, we either need him back ASAP, or he needs to sit for a long while and we need to make some moves rn

 

[Stephen]

Yeah because you know better than the team’s medical staff. What is the injury exactly ? Can you even answer that question. Plenty of injuries are painful to play through but that doesn’t mean the player is putting their career at risk by playing in discomfort. Half the players in the league play games during a season that way. If players couldn’t play when hurt we’d be watching the Marlies most night.

All we know is he had an injury that wouldn’t get worse with wear and tear, that eventually took him out of action because of in-game wear and tear that he couldn’t play through anymore, and has been out since December 20. So it didn’t get better or worse but it stopped him playing games? It’s not that any of us know more than the medical staff, it’s what the medical staff is saying doesn’t reflect what’s going on.

 

[Stephen]

Which is the ‘months long’ one and which is the ‘debilitating’ one?

I’ll let you ponder on this one yourself since you introduced the idea of a fresh new injury.

 

[Maple Leaf]

the team (obviously) looks worse without him and his 13.25 million dollars. We can't really do much offensively, and our pp sucks. We have one shooting threat, and it's negated by the fact that rielly is passing to him

from an entertainment standpoint, we either need him back ASAP, or he needs to sit for a long while and we need to make some moves rn

could pull a tampa vegas cheat move and save him for game 1 and acquire a replacement and double team

 

[Jojalu]

could pull a tampa vegas cheat move and save him for game 1 and acquire a replacement and double team

JT Miller seems to be the type of guy that might get on the core's ass a little bit.

 

[Ports]

All we know is he had an injury that wouldn’t get worse with wear and tear, that eventually took him out of action because of in-game wear and tear that he couldn’t play through anymore, and has been out since December 20. So it didn’t get better or worse but it stopped him playing games? It’s not that any of us know more than the medical staff, it’s what the medical staff is saying doesn’t reflect what’s going on.

And what would you expect them to say ?

 

[ACC1224]

I’ll let you ponder on this one yourself since you introduced the idea of a fresh new injury.

Yeah I don’t know either

 

[BallardEra]

So does he play tomorrow or Saturday?

 

[Apex Predator]

So does he play tomorrow or Saturday?

They already announced him out for tomorrow. They said no timeline on his return.

 

[BallardEra]

They already announced him out for tomorrow. They said no timeline on his return.

Wow. Won't see him Saturday or Sunday as well.

 

[Stephen]

And what would you expect them to say ?

Normally, a team just says what the actual injury is, what the player is trying to play through and might outline rehab vs surgery timelines and they're considering both.

 

[Stephen]

Wow. Won't see him Saturday or Sunday as well.

Only going by his last injury layoff which lasted about 3.5 weeks and wasn't effective in bringing him back to 100% health, if he took the same time off from December 20, he won't be back till at least the half way point of January.

 

[leafsfan5]

We are so unbelievably cooked

 

[Aashir]

We are so unbelievably cooked

Day to day injury btw

Clown ass organization

 

[BrannigansLaw]

That 4 year term looking better and better by the day.

Missing games is one thing but even when he’s playing there are far too many times where he’s not 100 percent. He’s brittle unfortunately.