Jack Campbell enters player assistance program

[brentashton]

Do you really think it’s reasonable?

Yup Slick you nailed it. The program is confidential for obvious reasons but some on here want his medical records posted for purely voyeuristic reasons.

Let the guy get the help and support he requires and wish him the best in his recovery journey from whatever is ailing him in private. Full stop.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Probably not the place to debate a moron like you but answer me this, how shit must an organisation be if one man can make a mess of it?

I know it probably makes you feel a little bit better about yourself but f***ing grow up.

im also curious what mess he's made?

Kings? No
Leafs? No
Oilers? no, they went to the final with him on the roster.

 

[brentashton]

It’s a little perplexing that he signs a contract with Detroit and 3 months later a week before the season starts he enters the PAP. So his issue developed sometime in the last 3 months? I mean if a company hired me for a year on a set salary of 100 k and the day before I start my year long contract I enter their employee assistance program and still get paid, I don’t think the company would be too thrilled…

I know a guy that got head hunted for a senior exec position in a publicly traded company. 4 months into the job He had a massive heart attack, emergency quadruple bypass . Obviously a long recovery before he went back first part and then full time. But I guess the company should have fired him after his cardiac episode because he probably was sick before he started. Pathetic.

Like others said, f*** the company and people who think that way. And I say that as someone who worked as an executive in a large company and had important people “exit” workflow at critical times for me personally in terms of the work I needed done. My needs were less than important at that point though. Their treatment and recovery was what was important.
Good grief even thinking this way.

 

[Orfieus]

Looks like the demotion then buyout hit him hard

 

[Voight]

The thing with Campbell is hes his own worst enemy. Always blames himself when the team struggles. Hoping for the best, hes probably the nicest guy in the entire league.

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Soup will pull this off. Reaching out the biggest step.

and only the nieve and the grade schoolers "tend not to think of players as human".

He a weird case, with a ceiling higher than most nhl backups and several starter. Never count those guys completely out.

Get well soup!

 

[mouser]

Can someone tell me a player who entered the PAP and actually have a long productive career after? Cause I feel like every player I think of that was the beginning of the end, bobby ryan, carey price, Kuznetsov…

The NHL/NHLPA only announce when a player enters the Player Assistance Program if that results in the Player missing games.

Entering the program in stage 1 does not automatically require the Player to stop playing. That decision is made by the doctor(s) with the player’s input to decide whether it’s okay for the player to continue to play NHL games while being treated.

It’s likely many players have been—or are currently in—Stage 1 of the Player Assistance Program while continuing to play NHL hockey.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

It’s a little perplexing that he signs a contract with Detroit and 3 months later a week before the season starts he enters the PAP. So his issue developed sometime in the last 3 months? I mean if a company hired me for a year on a set salary of 100 k and the day before I start my year long contract I enter their employee assistance program and still get paid, I don’t think the company would be too thrilled…

I think that you are are clueless to the world.

 

[Oleksiak]

Yup Slick you nailed it. The program is confidential for obvious reasons but some on here want his medical records posted for purely voyeuristic reasons.

Let the guy get the help and support he requires and wish him the best in his recovery journey from whatever is ailing him in private. Full stop.

While I commend guys like Carey Price who go public with their struggles to try to help others, no person should feel obligated to do so. I wish him a full recovery and am glad to see most people understand how important it is to respect his privacy.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

Really hope he'll get the help he needs and is able to recover/learn to deal with it.

 

[Figgy44]

Can someone tell me a player who entered the PAP and actually have a long productive career after? Cause I feel like every player I think of that was the beginning of the end, bobby ryan, carey price, Kuznetsov…

Most of those guys entered after their peak though, so it was perhaps a contributing factor, but nor a primary factor for their fall. I also assume a few of those guys needed PAP to address an issue with how they were approaching daily life outside of hockey. I think lots of NHL players brute force it until they can't handle it anymore. That's why many of these players openly going into the PAP it was the beginning of the end. Lots of the guys going in are 25+.

Names mentioned: Knight is pre peak I think qualifies that the Panthers are expecting him to return. Laine IMO is also in this category.

I don't know if it counts, but the one that sticks out for me is Ferland. He got help as a prospect after it was revealed he was getting tanked in the morning (Brian McGrattan and Hartley helped him once he requested help). Once sober, he had 5 productive seasons. But on the 6th season, his career was derailed by concussions to the point he never played again and he has been LTIR'd/retired since he was 27/28 ish. If not for the concussions, he'd still be playing. I believe he posted or interviewed on multiple occasions about being sober, so I'd say the PAP helped him a lot, so there's optimism.

Wishing Soupy the best. Even if he never plays again, I hope his day to day can be as normal as he needs it to be.