Im guessing you were one of those posters.
I called it was either a hip or a knee injury.
And then the folks who said he was healthy either now down play the injury or ignore it happened completely.
I get it.
Admitting you were wrong can be really difficult for some people.
Playing for months with that injury is not a small thing.
I know you cling on some info you read about how it affects some office workers and refuse to acknowledge how different it is for a pro athlete to keep doing competetive contact sports through the injury.
I think he has had two injuries that cause significant chronic pain and that is something that has caused two of his slumps.
To think its a coincidence is driven by an agenda...
Most of the time.
Pettersson's Struggles:
-start to show a little bit against Philly
-theorizes that he is wired differently that Miller and Hughes; not as emotional as them
-thinks he is one of those guys that is aware of everything that is said about him and it's something he going to have to move past
-Hughes knows what matters and what doesn't
-Miller has got a lot better at "riding the line" emotionally
-Boeser has improved at remaining calm
-Friedman's constructive criticism of Pettersson is he needs to figure out how to ignore the noise
And yet the coach , management and the player himself don’t see it as an excuse for his poor performance, but PuckMunchkin does?Playing for months with that injury is not a small thing.
I know you cling on some info you read about how it affects some office workers and refuse to acknowledge how different it is for a pro athlete to keep doing competetive contact sports through the injury.
You keep stating your uneducated opinnion on Peteys injury as a fact.I've already been over this with you and will not reiterate the points I made previously.
And yet the coach , management and the player himself don’t see it as an excuse for his poor performance, but PuckMunchkin does?
Nope. Because every player is battling something over an 82 game schedule.
Not excuse.
A Key reason.
Let me guess. You were also one of the posters who insisted he was playing healthy last season.
In theory he should be much stronger than his rookie season, yet his rookie season blew away his last 50ish games, so no, the strength thing doesn't hold water imo.I don't even care as much about the body language. It's the not pushing the play that gets me. Like I get if that's just his personality. As long as he's trying to make things happen on the ice and making use of his talent then he has every right to be who he is and exhibit whatever body language comes naturally (though good body language is generally just better, especially in a team environment). But he doesn't. His play, while intelligent and responsible, is just so vanilla offensively.
I said it last season during the playoffs: I think it's actually more simple than we all think. The guy just needs to get stronger. He's lacking confidence to impose himself out there and I honestly think something as simple as getting stronger, staying on his skates and being better able to hold on to the puck and cut to the middle and bulldoze through or around defenders would help his confidence tremendously. The floodgates would open. That's how confidence works.
I genuinely feel for him if all the noise is getting to him. It's a tough situation because it's not as if the market is being unfair either (talking in general, obviously there are always idiots out there who say terrible things). I just hope he can be assured that the entire city is pulling for him and has his back. Hell, that should be abundantly clear after the playoffs when the fans tried to get him going. Like, the market is quite aware of exactly how he's struggling (mentally) and tried to give him a pick me up.
He really doesn't have many excuses. He's just got to figure it out fast. And the organization should be helping him in any possible way they can.
Nope.
Yup.Because every player is battling something over an 82 game schedule.
I'm not taking a guess here. I can see with my own eyes that he's not strong enough out there.In theory he should be much stronger than his rookie season, yet his rookie season blew away his last 50ish games, so no, the strength thing doesn't hold water imo.