This argument about ancient history of EP only exists because literally no one remembers what was happening several years ago. It's 100% narrative.
You are right that our recollection of events, or memories, often differ from the actual events. That's why it is settled evidence law to prefer past contemporaneous evidence on an event or subject over the present recollection of a person of that event. or subject.
Luckily for us, we have a ton of contemporaneous eye witness evidence on this subject so we don't have to go based on memories (like your memory, for example). In fact, in this thread (
Player Discussion - Had Pettersson Regressed?) and on December 11, 2021 I posted the following:
"Pettersson’s skating is the real issue. He can’t create and time and space. Hopefully he gets back on track."
So, I certainly haven't created this narrative as you are suggesting. This is a view I have always held. And not just myself. The following are ten other eye witness accounts from posters questioning his skating from the time of his last slump:
-He's not skating. There was a play in one of the Ducks Games where he was forechecking and Getzlaf had the puck. Instead of skating and catching that old f*** he instead started reaching with his stick and Getzlaf blew by him
-Effort on that EN goal says it all. Just giving zero f***s out there.
-He's weak on his skates and doesn't seem as fast.
-His speed/hustle that was so evident in year 1 is gone
-The passing, the skating, the turnovers it's just all bad.
-He just doesn't move his feet at all. He just glides around.
-Physically speaking, the issue seems to be that a gentle breeze knocks him over, and he seems to have substituted skating with coasting around.
-Kid can't even skate or make 10 foot passes.
-he's not a fast skater, he's not a strong skater
-EP has completely checked out on a physical level. He is just going through the motions, he is the epitome of being easy to play against. Maybe someone should point that out to him?
-If EP can't be bothered to actually move his legs when he's on the ice, I have no problem with seeing what the trade market is like, although it's hard to imagine getting good value for a player who falls to the ice once per shift.
And I could find a ton more of these as I only searched one thread and didn't bother looking in each GTD, or post GTD.
So the idea that "Pettersson skated poorly in his last slump" is 100% narrative is entirely wrong and demonstrably false base on the above.
It was one of many things I said… to show that there is a lot of ways a wrist injury could have effected his skating,
I don't think you have reasonably shown that his wrist injury could have significantly affected his skating. And I don't really get the Hronek comparison other than to suggest that he could have had a different lower body injury at the time....but like I said, any play at any time could have an injury, and I think that's beyond debate.
and or been more of an injury than you just claiming it’s a minor injury with no evidence.
This is not a good way to think.
Again, I think you both are getting lost in how major or minor the wrist injury was. And again, if the known injury at the time was a lower body injury then I would agree with both of you that the severity of the injury was crucial, but we aren't talking a lower body injury. We are talking a wrist injury that Pettersson missed no games or training for, as far as we know, making it unreasonable or farfetched to suggest, in my view, that it was a significant or material cause in his poor skating.
