John Tavares injury

[Bring Bak Damphousse]

Fighting someone for a freak accident? Whats next, they should have fought when Zednik got his throat sliced open?

I’m still pissed off nobody fought McClaren for clotheslining him.
Scary hit on Tavares though, hope he’s ok.

 

[Thucydides]

Am guessing he's done for the night.

Lol, you think ? If he comes back it would be like..

 

[DRL]

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

How would you suggest he does that? You think he expected Tavares to turn right in front of him with zero reaction time?

 

[Just Linda]

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

A neurologist in the Habs Facebook group I'm in disagree with you on that. I'll take their word over yours.

 

[Zarpan]

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.

Plenty of time to avoid him if you are watching in slow motion. At full speed it is clear there was no time to react. About 0.2 seconds from when Tavares lands on the ice to when Perry makes contact.

 

[leafsfan2point0]

I appreciate the tweet from the Habs organization and really hope Tavares is able to make a full recovery and is okay. Very scary stuff

 

[snipes]

The guy has young children as well, just brutal to see that.

I really hope it’s not a career ender for him, some things are more important than hockey though. Hopefully his wife has some support with her right now as well, I can’t imagine what she’s going through seeing that.

 

[sasha barkov]

Looks like one of those career altering injuries. Don't think he'll ever be the same player. He looked like a vegtable when the trainers got him on his knees. The blood on his eyes was also weird and from a weird angle. Hope it's not spine or brain injury. scary, scary stuff

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

The big question is does JT had any previous concussions?

 

[Steve]

I’m not sure how people can think this was anything but an accident. I hate Perry as much as the next guy and I’m a leaf fan, but this was so clearly accidental.

Also, the fight was dumb and unnecessary but I can overlook that if Perry gets punched in general.

 

[The Expert]

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.

Hey do you but you're missing your team rally around their fallen captain.

 

[RobBrown4PM]

f*** physics, that is all.

Get well soon, JT

 

[bleedgreen]

A neurologist in the Habs Facebook group I'm in disagree with you on that. I'll take their word over yours.

Again, what would you or they have that guy do?

And I would absolutely take my opinion over a neurologist who hasn’t been on an emergency scene maybe ever. But I’m a cocky sob anyways.

 

[Flair Hay]

Hopefully he is alright, that looked really bad

As crazy bad as it could be, better a knee than a skate in that situation

 

[Filthy Dangles]

I’m not sure how people can think this was anything but an accident. I hate Perry as much as the next guy and I’m a leaf fan, but this was so clearly accidental.

Also, the fight was dumb and unnecessary but I can overlook that if Perry gets punched in general.

You're on HF Boards, dumb opinions and statements should be expected. But to be fair, there's what maybe 2-3 posters who said it.

 

[Voodoo Child]

Tragic and I hope JT is okay, but come on...

Trevor Perry wasn't the most agile of skaters even in his day and JT falls ten feet in front of him, how is he gonna avoid that? Not even close to intentional.

Not at all like what that er Dubois did to Muzzin last August.

 

[antiqueslivers]

Yeah I'm sure there's a handful of reasons why you aren't

Also wrt intent posts in this thread - hard to blame Perry here. Perry was skating full-tilt even prior to the hit being made. He had no time to avoid it.

where in my post do I blame perry? I think you may have gotten lost in your initial witty retort and imagined the rest.

 

[ponder]

Honesty, looked like an extremely awful, “and he was never the same again” type injury Not just how clearly concussed he was, but he appeared to be bleeding out of both sides of one eye - that eye might be wrecked.

But hopefully I’m wrong, sometimes injuries look terrible at first but the recovery is faster than you’d think, e.g. Patches/Chara. Fingers crossed it’s one of those - a non-career/life altering concussion, his eyes fine, and nothing in his face badly broken. My thoughts are with our captain.

Complete freak accident though - Perry does plenty of “accidentally on purpose” shit, but this wasn’t that, he didn’t have time to do anything. Looks a bit different in slo-mo, but at full speed it happens so fast, pure accident IMO. I do like the fight regardless - Foligno isn’t calmly analyzing a slo-mo replay, he’s revved up in an aggressive game and saw his captain get badly injured, he’s gonna fight the guy who did it, even if it was accidental. That’s hockey, and fine in my book.

 

[dubey]

where in my post do I blame perry? I think you may have gotten lost in your initial witty retort and imagined the rest.

You didn't. I just didn't want to post twice but I guess here is #2

 

[Big Cactus]

?? You understand the jumbotron is in the center of the ice and replays stuff and the players can see it the same as you can on CBC?

Right?

Who the f*** are they running replays for, no one is in the building. Simmonds in his intermission interview said no one knew what happened.

 

[Ezpz]

Who the f*** are they running replays for, no one is in the building. Simmonds in his intermission interview said no one knew what happened.

You can literally see players looking up and watching the jumbotron all throughout the game. Open your eyes please.

 

[Big Cactus]

You can literally see players looking up and watching the jumbotron all throughout the game. Open your eyes please.

Ok bud you know better. Wave to the camera next time it pans by.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

A neurologist in the Habs Facebook group I'm in disagree with you on that. I'll take their word over yours.

In fairness, IIRC, Bleedgreen is an EMT, so he's trained in how to handle people immediately after an injury. He's not just some poster talking out of his ass like most of us.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

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.

Basically this. It creates a situation where teams don't escalate. Players, like it or not, agree it's settled and done and move on. Most horrific events that happen are due to refs not calling things, then they escalate. In this case it was an accident but there remains a code, whether people like it or not.

 

[Just Linda]

In fairness, IIRC, Bleedgreen is an EMT, so he's trained in how to handle people immediately after an injury. He's not just some poster talking out of his ass like most of us.

That's good to know.