If you know that to be 100% true then you are right, but you don't. Happens all the time in sports. perception is everything.
Naw, that’s fan fiction so that in the absence of any factual information some fans default to needing to be right in their assessments.
The easiest path here in this situation, the common sense approach, would be to avoid conspiracy theories, and simply assume that the coach and player are being legit. As usual there are far too many people that would have to perpetuate the fabrication for it to be feasible, especially given the reasoning.
Stu is injured, he could play today if the games mattered, but they don’t, so he isn’t. I don’t believe, given what we see from the players on the team in general, that they or Stu, or the coach, would advocate sitting out and pretending to be hurt so that Gally can look wrong on HFSens. Certainly no one in Hab land cares at all. We went through this with Subban and Stone’s microfracture. No one cares if the guy is actually injured in habland, all they care about is that it was a ‘bullshit’ call at the time and the refs suck and the Sens are fakers.
Perception is important, I agree, but the perception of a player sitting out faking an injury just to try and save face based on another team’s players comments, is really terrible. As in there is zero chance the Sens would do that. No chance Brady would be cool with that, or Stu, or DJ.
They’ll just go and put the hurt on the Habs on the 23rd if they’re still sore about it.
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