Am I? I fully get that there was a 2nd surgery, I'm not stupid. That doesn't really change the fact that the original timeline back in July 2022 was 10-12 months on the original diagnosis. It's now been and 2nd surgery later, 22 months and counting. The timeline of the injury doesn't magically start over because he has a 2nd surgery. Can't just simply ignore the first 10 months of the injury because he had a 2nd surgery. It's all one timeline.
I want Landy back playing as much as anyone, even though you seem to think I don't or that I have some vendetta against him, I don't. Used to give him crap but he proved me wrong and I haven't said a word since. He's an important player who has a big salary.
Or I want him to retire in some fashion so that there is closure. He can't keep doing the maybe game, it's simply not fair to the rest of the team. 7M needs to be used on players that can help the on ice product. If that's Landy great if not it needs to be someone else.
The timeline absolutely starts over because he had a second f***ing procedure. JFC, it's not that hard.
You don't get 1 surgery, and when it doesn't work out you get a second one and are told "Your timeline is 12-16 months, but guess what? Since you've already been out for 10 months, you get that as an accrued credit on your timeline for this surgery! So you're really only looking at at 2-6 months out!"
It starts over. To even try and argue otherwise is flat-out dumb.
He had the first surgery, it didn't work. It happens, such is life. In fact you could actually argue all the way back to the fact that his cleanup surgery/whatever he had done that ended his 2021-22 regular season was the kickstart of all of this. Perhaps if they'd done a proper procedure then, this might've been avoided. However, the decision was made to clean it up (whatever "it" was) and he'd come back for the playoffs. I'd say given what ensued, he's not unhappy with it.
However, as we saw, he took no morning skates and participated in 0 practices. Everything took its toll. So he got the first surgery recommended, because it was believed it would fix the issue and not be something deemed "risky" (due to the limited number of athletes in general that have had knee cartilage replacement surgery), and it would have a shorter recovery timeline. But it didn't work out. So he had to get the more risky one that carries a longer recovery period.
I know you know all of this, but it seems like you want to forget it so that you can deem Landeskog "selfish" for wanting to continue his career because he's been told by Doctors that he should be able to.
He's not doing a "maybe game". He's still on track to return within the pre-determined timeline that was given to him. I don't know where you're getting lost at, but you're clearly getting lost somewhere along the way to being made at Gabe Landeskog for yet another dumbass reason.
