Don’t worry,
@Hodgy will tell us how it’s totally normal for all hockey players to ice specific one knee after the game.
I literally posted yesterday that I wouldn’t be surprised if he was injured and that the longer this slump went on the more likely this was true.
I don’t doubt that he’s icing his knee because of patellar tendinitis which is a swollen tendon. The icing helps to keep the swelling down. No idea what the current severity of the injury is, but it’s pretty alarming that he’s still got it a year later assuming this icing isn’t more preventative.
I have not been reading most of his recent posts but from the bits I've seen, I like how his argument has slowly escalated in incremental steps from "he's not injured" to "well doctors know best and no one who isn't one can question them, but also why didn't he know better than the doctors and know to seek a second medical opinion for it earlier". This entire sequence is an absurd exercise is digging in so deep you've turned upside down.
I mean, you are misframing my position entirely and strawmaning my argument as you like to do. I’m not the one whose steered discussion towards an analysis of the Canucks medical staff I’m just responding to the dubious and rather unsupported conclusion that they are terrible. But if you think that posters on HF have the requisite expertise, knowledge and experience to conclude that with some certainty then that’s fine, you probably just have a much lower threshold for evidence than I do. And again, I’m not even saying that conclusion is necessarily incorrect, only that posters are far too certain. But of course this type of nuance seems totally ignored and susceptible to strawmans.
And you laugh at the thought of seeking a second opinion, but this isn’t some unprecedented thing. This happens all the time in medicine, especially with wealthy patients. And frankly, it would be somewhat surprising if he and/or the team had sought a second or third opinion. I’ve got patellar tendinitis and other leg and lower back issues and I’ve seen four different specialists over the last two years. The idea that a player, with one of the largest contracts in league history, has an injury that has been significantly affecting his his play for over an entire year, and whose injury is not getting much better, wouldn’t, through the team or independently, seek a second opinion is kind of crazy. Like, how many years do you think he’d need to continue to play and be terrible before he thinks maybe a second opinion would be a good idea? Of course, like I said, he’s probably already got multiple medical opinions on the matter.
And if I am digging in so deep then why would I say I wouldn’t be surprised if he was injured, and that the longer this goes on the more likely that’s true? Again, it’s just a strawman. I have no problem revising my position based on new information and literally did that yesterday in this very thread on this very page that you responded to, but you’d rather dunk on a strawman than post in good faith.
