John Tavares injury

[The don godfather]

The more I see it and especially full speed this potentially can be career ending. That's in the skull area. Hope I'm wrong. I saw it like 10 times slow and full speed.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Praise God.

Great to hear, hope he’s back soon

For anyone still thinking this was on purpose, Perry ain’t Neo, he can’t pause time, levitate and spin to avoid it

 

[Boomstick]

That was extremely tough to watch. All the best John.

 

[compan]

I don’t want to see anything. But I know from watching Perry in the pacific for a decade plus what kind of player he is. Accidental on purpose happens ALL the time with him. Check these plays, and it doesn’t even include his time in Anaheim when it was much worse.

Heres Perry “accidentally” kneeing Stalock in the head, look familiar?:



Here’s another Perry kneeing “accident” for you:



here’s Perry “accidentally” elbowing someone in the face:




That took me 5 mins of googling and doesn’t even include his time in Anaheim, give me another 10 and I’ll get you 6 more videos.

No, you very clearly want to see this as on purpose.

But go ahead and keep going down your rabbit hole on Perry. It doesn’t change the fact this happened in a split second and you’re thinking he thought out a whole fake scenario in that time to nearly end his friends career. A scenario mind you where he jumps, just not nearly high enough, only enough for it to look accidental

This place sometimes...

 

[Grifter3511]

I don’t want to see anything. But I know from watching Perry in the pacific for a decade plus what kind of player he is. Accidental on purpose happens ALL the time with him. Check these plays, and it doesn’t even include his time in Anaheim when it was much worse.

Heres Perry “accidentally” kneeing Stalock in the head, look familiar?:



Here’s another Perry kneeing “accident” for you:



here’s Perry “accidentally” elbowing someone in the face:




That took me 5 mins of googling and doesn’t even include his time in Anaheim, give me another 10 and I’ll get you 6 more videos.

Every single one of those looks very deliberate with plenty of time to avoid contact...even the Stalock one. Tonight's hit does not look like those at all.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

The 1 minute following the hit is extremely concerning, have any updates been released?

Hoping for a swift recovery

 

[Sheppy]

I really, really can’t put any blame on Perry here. I’m sure he feels like shit.

 

[kingpest19]

Yes but only one of us has watched and followed along with a decade plus of Corey Perry “accidental” plays.

I hate Perry as a player and think he's a complete douchebag but there was nothing he could have done to avoid Tavares. He didn't have time to avoid him

 

[DuckedUpOnQuack]

As a Canuck fan I hate Perry but lol at anyone thinking he did this on purpose. Did you guys not see that happen at real speed?

Hopefully Tavares makes a full recovery

Yeah, but like, if you slow it down to 10% speed he had all the time in the world to avoid the hit!

JT get well soon.

 

[kingpest19]

If you're looking for the culprit on this play, it's not Perry. It's Chiarot. I thought the league had banned the can-opener move.

Perry was in the wrong place at the wrong time and, in my opinion, didn't need to fight afterwards.

Can opener move? It was a body check as Tavares was trying to cut to the middle of the ice

 

[Paul4587]

Horrible to see, hopefully Tavares is ok and makes a swift recovery.

Anyone who thinks Perry did that deliberately though... I don’t know what to say. It’s clearly an accident.

 

[TheYardMachine]

Glad the news are looking positive

I honestly thought it could be a career ending/changing injury at first and it was one of the scariest injury ive seen in a while.

Felt serious like the Pacioretty/Chara incident

 

[The Beyonder]

no it really isn't. smart response would be to win the game for tavares and fire up the team for saturday.

now the fight has done what exactly ? nothing. leafs lost tavares and ultimately lost the game. but i bet tavares is happy that "nick stood up for him".

anyways, i'm done commenting on this, fight was stupid af. hope tavares get well soon.

So would it be preferable if Foligno did nothing and let Corey Perry go? Or if they kept taking runs at him? I totally get why he did that. Their captain is on the ice bleeding and stretchered off. Accident or not, I get why he felt he needed to respond and Perry agreed. It's done and you're making it a bigger deal than it is.

 

[The Assclown]

The more I see it and especially full speed this potentially can be career ending. That's in the skull area. Hope I'm wrong. I saw it like 10 times slow and full speed.

Yes, he got hit to the head. Of course it's in the "skull area."

 

[Ray Mercer]

Total freak accident and hopefully Tavares is back later in the series and doesn’t have any concussion like symptoms. I can’t stand the Leafs but it sucks losing a star player especially when you’re in a good position to make a run for the cup. The Perry fight was stupid because anyone with half a brain can see that was accidental. It would be different if he did him dirty.

 

[Jee]

So would it be preferable if Foligno did nothing and let Corey Perry go? Or if they kept taking runs at him? I

yes, because it was not perry's fault.

 

[Del Preston]

Corey Perry is a rat bastard and has done some pretty shitty things in his career. But there is no way what happened tonight was intentional.

In the Spoiler tags is the gif at or close to real speed. It was a bang-bang collision. Tavares was also rolling in Perry's direction when contact was made which made it worse because the head/neck went the opposite way.

Spoiler

 

[Oilslick941611]

I appreciate Foligno fighting Perry, because you only see the fight in twitter if you search Foligno.

I don't want to see again the fainting Tavares while the trainer was moving him

Foligno comes out looking like a monkey. Like a genuine ape. 100% accidental, an emotional hot head. There was no need to fight and he’s just there wailing on Perry’s head. What an idiot.

 

[TippinOn44s]

Welp Leafs have officially absolved Perry of all responsibility for his predatory knee to Tavares head. Montreal could really take this series now with physicality, Leafs too nice to call a spade a spade.

Predatory?

 

[Ringo13]

Couple of points here.
1. I don't wish an injury to anyone. It doesn't matter that Tavares is an honest classy player.
2. I don't believe in accidents. But I can't see any way this could have been avoided.
3. I don't understand the purpose of the fight.
4. Huge respect to both teams for being able to play after such a terrible thing.
5. I'm an Oilers fan and I would rather see JT back this series than see my team win a game.

 

[Shad]

Looks bad..eerily similar to the Pacioretty injury years ago. Hope he can recover as well.

 

[The Beyonder]

yes, because it was not perry's fault.

Fault has nothing to do with it. Hence why he said that he knew it was an accident and that "you stand up for your teammates, right or wrong". Regardless that fight is not even worth talking about.

 

[Cotton]

Lol foligno retire buddy

You’re in a very small majority my man, had nothing even happened tons of people would want to see Perry getting fed just for his history of nonsense.

 

[Ol' Jase]

As an Oilers fan, I hate Corey Perry as much as any player can be hated.

That wasn’t remotely intentional, and I’m actually shocked any hockey fan could see it that way.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Legit thought he was paralyzed.

Made me sick. Hopefully he makes a full recovery.