Like this: Rutherford also says "he didn’t know if the possibility of a trade ignited Pettersson’s willingness to sign a new deal."...? No, let's just ignore the POH's implication about the player... "An incredible amount of hubris" indeed.
While one can speculate as to whether management leaked trade rumours to pressure Pettersson to sign, at least their is logic in speculating that trade rumours may pressure Pettersson to sign. There is no logic in thinking that Allvin, knowing Pettersson’s poor play is predominantly caused by injury, is going to publicly call out Pettersson and that this public call out will lead to Pettersson playing better. The public call out only makes sense if Allvin thinks Pettersson’s poor play is not predominately caused by injury.
Now it's 'believe the aligned GM-Coach-JT Miller' triumvirate over the player who said he had to work around a nagging injury in the offseason.
I don’t think you have to disregard Petey’s comments about training around the injury. Alvin can still think that Pettersson’s play was not predominately caused by injury but accept that he has or had a nagging, minor injury.
The same management that was in danger of a Tanner Pearson grievance due to medical malpractice.
I didn’t realize management were medical practitioners that could commit medical malpractice. lol. But yes, they obviously take advice from medical practitioners, and it’s possible they are getting terrible advice, and are taking that advice and ignoring, presumably, Pettersson’s own account to the contrary, and are then so confident in said advice over Pettersson’s account that they are going to blast Pettersson in the media notwithstanding that he’s the single most important asset in their organization, and an asset the signed long term to a monster contract. So it’s possible, but it seems far fetched to me. I could see them potentially favouring the medical advice over Petey’s account (although even that is a bit of a stretch) but to go out and publicly blast your most important asset is something entirely different.
The same coach who to this day is getting called out by JPat about overplaying Demko toward his latest injury. Management put it back on the player by implying he was over-training.
I think we are mostly talking about Allvin here. I just brought up Tocchet’s comments because they are largely consistent with Allvin’s comments.
There is zero chance management-coach are above reproach with regards to injuries. Zero. At best, it's a gray area where nothing definitive can result from a lack of information.
Nothing definitive can ever result from a lack of information. Clearly the Canucks haven’t always dealt with injuries correctly. But there are two things at play here. First, there is the issue as to whether they have got good or bad medical advice. And second, the issue of them blasting Petey publicly. I’m more concerned about the latter issue, and I find it far fetched to believe that they are receiving bad medical advice, and are disregarding, presumably, Petey’s own account to the contrary, and then going on to rely on said advice over Petey’s account to the contrary in publicly blasting Petey, who is their most valuable asset that they locked up long term.
But also, keep in mind the context of my response that you replied to. I was calling out the OP who suggested that anyone who can’t see that Pettersson’s bad play is due to injury is “deliberately, wilfully, and in bad faith blind”. I’m not making any wild declarations here, either way, because as you point out we have limited information. But the idea that Pettersson’s clearly a result of injury, or anything that that effect, is completely at odds with Allvin’s comments.
