bleedgreen
Registered User
There’s always a possibility a player actually is better right at the end of the season. It’s going to be awful tough to prove that someone is ready and didn’t play. It comes down to Dr’s clearance and after three procedures over a year+ and trying to get cleared to go back to work after all three with different doctors I can say every dr is different. It often can be a factor of what the physical therapist says even more than the doc. Often the doc will rely on what the PT says about where you’re at. I’d suspect hockey is pretty similar. The Doc knows when the injury is healed enough for you to get after it training wise, but the PT knows your strength and conditioning as you’re building it. They all put it together to try to guess when you’re ready, which is often truly a guess in the end. I’m sure they thought Patches was ready.
Basically impossible to regulate or prove anything unless you find a chart that says that the player could play now but the team chose not to. Good luck.
Basically impossible to regulate or prove anything unless you find a chart that says that the player could play now but the team chose not to. Good luck.