Anyone remember the gruesome injury he had in the playoffs?
Might take more than a couple of games to get feeling right on the ice again.
Lots of really clueless and heartless posters in here.
In all honesty he got off light, by that I mean he didn't suffer any kind of neck or spine trauma, and the concussion he did receive was very and I mean VERY mild in nature. I think where things went south in that situation is how that idiotic trainer tried to lift him up off the ice, you NEVER move a person with a potential neck or TBI, that trainer should have lost his job on the spot.
As for the concussion? Tavares was good as day less than hours later! If you recall, he was out practicing prior to Game 2, if he had a "gruesome" injury, no way would be allowed to be out on the ice. Also, he was up in the pressbox watching Game 2, again, if he had such a severe concussion, he would be laid up in a dark room, he wouldnt have been able to withstand the bright lights for hours on end.
I know what I'm speaking about here, because I suffered a very similiar head injury to JT's years ago- I was on my Dads boat (I was around 13 at the time), I made the mistake of laying on the bed in the cuddy, and he decided to blast the boat at 120km an hour, my head literally bounced up and down off the waves and nearly smacked the roof several times. I was laying face down, and then everything went dark and I had no memory of anything. The next thing I remember was waking up face down by the door, and when I got up I was incrediby dizzy and had a pounding headache, which lasted for 24 hours. After that? I was fine, no symptoms whatsoever.
JT's injury looked much worse than it was, and thankfully he didn't suffer any long term damage.
