John Tavares injury

[HuGo Sham]

you can see by leafs players and management's reaction, they have everything to lose in this series.
AND i hope Tavares recovers ASAP

 

[AwesomePanthers]

That did not look good. Hoping for a speedy recovery!

 

[thewookie1]

I applaud Perry for quite literally trying to dive over Tavares in the fraction of a second he had to react.
I'm unsure if the injury would of been worse or better had he effectively just went skating through.

As much as I hate Toronto and dislike what Tavares did to the Isles; I hope he'll be ok and recover quickly. Him trying to get up was the stuff of nightmares.

 

[Kelly]

He had like 10 minutes to go grab one of his team's dozen ipads and watch the play for himself. Stop making excuses. It was a dumbass reaction to an accidental play.

Oh ya, because that's the thing a normal person would do when your captain is unconscious on the ice.

Give your head a shake.

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Your fanbase is literally cheering about this injury. You're all trash.

Keep lying, pal.

 

[kilowatt]

Jesus f***ing Christ. What a crazy sequence of events, and what a scary response. Hope JT is okay. I don't think anyone's at fault here.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

I don't think Perry meant to knee him in the head but I definitely think he meant to skate by and give him a bump. He had plenty of time to avoid him.

Do you see the frames in which the play happened? Tavares fell and half a second later they collided.

If you said Perry wanted to hit him while he was up, sure. But to bump him AFTER he fell? Impossible, look at the speed and the trajectory; Perry barely had time to react and I believe even did a good enough job to try and dive last second instead of skate to the face.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

I was thinking the same. Seemed irresponsible of the trainer.

Tavares was trying to get up on his own, the trainer was supporting his head and neck. He wasn't lifting Tavares off the ice by his neck, come on now.

 

[waffledave]

There are actually people here who think this was intentional?

Tavares was practically still airborne when he got hit. Perry would have to be the greatest athlete of all time to have the reflexes to do that on purpose.

Seriously you need to be one hell of a dumb motherf***er to think that was intentional in any way.

 

[Coaches Coroner]

The play was ugly but now it’s overshadowed by how stupid Foligno is.

I dunno, sounds like you been Chilli-Wacked in the head with this take

 

[BKIslandersFan]

If you only want Leafs posts, there is a Leafs sub forum.

Cry me a river.

This is just completely unnecessary. JT did nothing to deserve being hurt like this. Chill out.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

what did he do

He was very clearly crying and in deep distress.

 

[nammerus]

no trainer was trying to stabilize his neck while tavares was like "screw that im ok" and trying to get up totally ignoring the trainer



they are only going off what they're seeing in realtime, no replay.

They had plenty of time to look at the replay. So either they’re willfully blind. Or were mis-directing their anger/shock by trying to hurt someone else in retaliation. Not sure which one is worse.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Tavares to hospital for observation. let's hope it's nothing serious

 

[SI90]

I absolutely went there. Islanders fans want nothing but the worst for the guy, including injuries. Garbage fanbase.

stop with this narrative. The islanders are currently playing a playoff game. Go check our GDT. As soon as it was posted you will see the majority of isles fans and posters hoping he’s ok.

 

[SoftDumpNtheCorner88]

Interesting view. Same thing if someone gets injured by a deflected shot, must fight whoever deflected the puck?

You know damn well that's not the same.

Habs are vocal about playing us rough, our captain goes down in an accidental hit during a rough play (chariot hits JT and JT runs into Perry's knee) and goes out the way he did... If he walked it off it probably would be different but the captain going down the way he did shocks the bench.. Foligno is setting the record straight accidental or not.. if you injure our okay during rough play you're going to answer the bell.. it sets the tone for the series and other teams as well... Everyone is going to answer. This isnt regular season and we're trying to set the standard.

 

[overlords]

Oh ya, because that's the thing a normal person would do when your captain is unconscious on the ice.

Give your head a shake.

Nah a normal person fights a guy for accidentally running into your ragdolled captain.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Didn;'t take very long for this thread to become a cesspool. You would think people would have a little respect when someone possibly just suffered a career, possibly life altering injury. I guess not

There's a dozen other threads for you guys to get off by trashing the Leafs, not sure why you need to be doing it here

 

[MarkyMarkov]

Said this in the GDT, but with the way the trainer had his hand on the neck, the blood... the way JT slumped over backwards and went limp.

I genuinely almost hurled. I was convinced we just saw someone die on the ice. I'm still sick to my damn stomach.

The last time I felt that sick from a hockey hit was Max Pacioretty.

 

[llamateizer]

Cool. Hit the block button and move on.

Agree that the timing isn't the best.
I insulted you and laughed (and felt bad)when I read it.


Seeing the thumbs up from Tavares is re-assuring

 

[Hostile Offer]

Was it tho? I know he was not trying to do that but I am fairly sure he would have hit him by “mistake” no matter what

You kidding me? There's no way he could ever expect Tavares' face to suddenly be right in front of his knee.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

you can see by leafs players and management's reaction, they have everything to lose in this series.
AND i hope Tavares recovers ASAP

I think they're probably more concerned with Tavares being seriously injured rather than their job security.

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

Pretty sure Tavaras was knocked out. First response when coming to is to get back up - it's a survival thing. Trainer can't stop that.

Again, f***in experts in this thread

 

[SUBdrewgANS]

god that just put a huge pit in my stomach. I really hope JT is ok.

 

[HanSolo]

Jesus, just saw what happened. Thankful there wasn't contact with the skate blade there. Still a terrible result but all I can think about is how much worse that could've been and how hard I cringed thinking it might have happened at first glance.

 

[DopeyFish]

They had plenty of time to look at the replay. So either they’re willfully blind. Or were mis-directing their anger/shock by trying to hurt someone else in retaliation. Not sure which one is worse.

players aren't going to be looking at the replay

they don't want to see it