John Tavares injury

[codswallop]

Damn. Didn't like his look, reaction right after. Best to JT, hoping it's not anything long term. Get better soon.

As for Perry, I've always seen him as a POS. But he's has no fault here, really unfortunate accident.

Only caring about a person's health now. That should be the focus, always.

 

[MattMartin]

Just hope it's just a concussion. I know that sounds awful, but that's the best case scenario and hoping it's not neck/spine related.

 

[De Montreal]

Everyone tagging on the trainer need to just shut up. He’s holding c-spine, on a guy who’s dazed and doesn’t want to lay down.

The guy did an excellent job with the circumstances. He’s not dragging him by the throat, he isn’t making him get up, exactly the opposite actually.

it's a tough job they have to keep proud athletes safe at all time indeed

 

[snipes]

Horrifying. Thoughts and prayers for a full recovery for him.

 

[llamateizer]

Ideally, yes but things don't always work the 'right' way or by the book. Pretty sure that's one of the first things you learn in emergency situation training.

Seeing the replay. The trainer didn't realized the severity as Tavares was responsive and tried to get up by himself.
It's easy to blame them from up there.

 

[SniperOnTheWing]

I'm a Leafs fan and literally just shut off my feed after seeing that go down. I'll check the score in the norning. So much excitement for this series to finally start and not even a period in our captain goes down with a possibly life-altering injury. Just feel sick right now.

As for Perry, I hate the guy but that wasn't his fault. The optics will look terrible just because he of all guys was involved but he clearly tried to leap over him and just had no time. You could see the concern in his face and he went out of his way to help the Habs doctor out onto the ice and also to give Tavares a tap when they took him off.

As for the fight, I don't know. Maybe Foligno just didn't see what we saw and thought it was intentional. Maybe he knew it was an accident but tempers would flare as the series went on so it might have been better to just put a bow on it right away. If it was just some arbitrary code thing to fight for the sake of fighting accident or not then that would be a pretty stupid way to handle it. I'll wait to hear what the players have to say afterwards maybe we'll get some clarification.

Hope Tavares is okay.

 

[Thucydides]

No update on JT yet?

 

[Grifter3511]

Ah but he sure made zero effort to not make contact..

Actually he did. You see his knees are pretty much touching each other. That would never happened normally unless he purposely brought his legs together, almost as if he was booking it out of the zone watching the puck and suddenly a body was falling into his path.

Could he have perhaps, jumped and dove over him? Sure. But its not his responsibility to do so. Why is this being a shitty, unlucky timing of events unacceptable for some people?

 

[MattMartin]

I mean you see this in the UFC, but you become somewhat numb to it because of the sport. Watching it in hockey or football is another level. Just scary to see someone fall back like that.

 

[Terry Yake]

Yeah....... there was zero intent there by perry

Anyone saying otherwise is either a leafs fan or a fan of a WC team who hates perry because of all his years with the ducks

 

[Vikke]

No update on JT yet?

Nothing other than he’s been taken to the hospital.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

No update on JT yet?

Taken to the hospital by ambulance, no sirens.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

Eh, I know not every single Isles fan meant harm to Tavares. But, the majority did. It was ridiculous. Go back to when he signed and afterwards.

Dude, just stop.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

that looked awful hope he is ok

 

[MattMartin]

Eh, I know not every single Isles fan meant harm to Tavares. But, the majority did. It was ridiculous. Go back to when he signed and afterwards.

Nah, I hope he never wins a cup. I hope he sucks. I never wished he got injured or had his career cut short. I don't remember us on this board wishing injury on him. I think that's fake news. I can't speak about twitter though, a lot of idiots on there might have.

 

[bleedgreen]

Seeing the replay. The trainer didn't realized the severity as Tavares was responsive and tried to get up by himself.
It's easy to blame them from up there.

If anything the trainer was trying to talk him back to the ground. He’s holding c-spine. No one intends to hold c-spine on someone getting up and walking, the very fact he’s trying indicates he wants Tavares down. JT is getting up on his own accord, and if the trainer wasn’t holding c-spine when JT passed out he would’ve went backwards and struck his head (again) on the ice. So not only did the guy do nothing wrong, he did pretty much everything right and caught JT before he could hurt himself worse.

 

[Nihiliste]

That was brutal. Forget hockey, hope he gets to live a normal life after that collision

 

[SML2]

What’s the message, don’t accidentally knee our Captain or else?

The message is that Perry is going to need to work on his vertical leaping ability in case this happens again. If he had decent ups he clears JT and there's no issue.

 

[DRL]

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.

I don’t think Perry jumped, it was more the impact sent him flying into the air. He didn’t have enough time to avoid or jump.

 

[Thucydides]

Taken to the hospital by ambulance, no sirens.

Thanks buddy . Been flipping back and forth between games. Hopefully by the end of the game we will hear something .

 

[jetsforever]

Wow that's scary
Hope there's no major damage

 

[Wretched Oil]

No you’re not, but all of you are wrong.

Well I sure don't have a problem being wrong, but it looked terrible and I've ONLY had basic training.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

No update on JT yet?

Am guessing he's done for the night.

 

[Swervin81]

Yeah....... there was zero intent there by perry

Anyone saying otherwise is either a leafs fan or a fan of a WC team who hates perry because of all his years with the ducks

I think even the most ardent of Perry haters can see it was accidental, especially after the thousands of (unnecessary) replays. Perry felt so bad.

That said, re: the Foligno fight - he doesn't have the benefit of replay. He just knows his captain went down and Perry was responsible. I can understand why he wouldn't be thinking straight. Besides, they dropped the mitts and that's it. Closure, reset, book closed. That's all the fight was. You could tell Perry wanted absolutely no part of it, but agreed to defuse the situation. Respect to Perry for that. In an alternate timeline where Kadri is still a Leaf, he senselessly crosschecks someone in the face and gets suspended.

 

[bleedgreen]

Well I sure don't have a problem being wrong, but it looked terrible and I've ONLY had basic training.

What would you have the guy do? He doesn’t have a collar, the crew with the stretcher have that bag. They don’t exactly fit in your back pocket. He knows his player took a blow to the head and is dazed. The priority is making sure the airway is clear, which seems fine and then holding c-spine so in case there’s a cervical fracture JT doesn’t severe his spinal cord by moving around while he’s seeing stars. What would you have him do?