Rumor: Stars' Ben Bishop potentially close to return (Update: Career over)

[Canuck86]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

 

[Unspecified]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

Every played competitive hockey or had a torn meniscus?? I have and as a forward and had to all but retire due to multiple knee injuries. A goalie is a completely different animal when it comes to your knees. Not everything is a conspiracy or some crazy cap circumvention. Keep being jaded.

 

[account deactivated]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

After 2 years of not playing because of injury and rehabbing (as a mid-30s goalie with a history of injuries) and that's "all of a sudden"?

Real 5head take there. Impeccable.

 

[tgo0]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

Tinfoil hat much?

 

[kilowatt]

Where's the conspiracy? Bishop's been injured forever, poor guy. If it took a game in the AHL to give it one more chance, that's what it took. Bishop was a great goaltender and it's a shame that injuries derail so many great careers.

 

[Oddbob]

Been injured for a long time, and was constantly getting hurt during games, even ones he finished. I have seen it twice just against Detroit when he was with TB. This is very likely a lot more legit than a few of the suspicious ones.

 

[Freudian]

Bishop wouldn't have to go through a song and dance routine to be able to LTIRetire. He's got enough of an injury history so no one will doubt him if he says he can't play.

 

[serp]

Bishop wouldn't have to go through a song and dance routine to be able to LTIRetire. He's got enough of an injury history so no one will doubt him if he says he can't play.

He clearly wanted to continue to play . His body just won't allow it anymore.

 

[Legion34]

This thread title is a wild ride

 

[Dolemite]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

You really should do your research before you post nonsense.

https://thehockeywriters.com/stars-ben-bishop-injury-history/
https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/ben-bishop-player-injuries

 

[CupHolders]

You really should do your research before you post nonsense.

https://thehockeywriters.com/stars-ben-bishop-injury-history/
https://www.foxsports.com/nhl/ben-bishop-player-injuries

What? Not even a flesh wound!

In all seriousness, that injury history looks like DiPietro’s. He also had meniscus damage that lead to chronic knee problems. Had chronic hip problems too.

Difference is that DiPietro couldn’t accept that his body was done until he tried to make a comeback with Carolina’s minor league team and they too passed on him.

 

[innitfam]

This all sounds fishy to me....Bishop goes down to the AHL and PLAYS a game, gets lit up by a bunch of plugs!!! Allows 8 goals against, then all of a sudden he is unable to play hockey...saving the Stars his cap hit and lessons the G logjam they have.

Not quite as bad as Hossa and his allergy to his equipment that just so happen to occur when his salary went down to 1m...

Oh well, when you can get past the cap by doing these sorts of things it will continue to happen

He hadn't played in 14 months up until that point....

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Maybe now he can get promoted to Arch Bishop.

 

[Chayos]

Every played competitive hockey or had a torn meniscus?? I have and as a forward and had to all but retire due to multiple knee injuries. A goalie is a completely different animal when it comes to your knees. Not everything is a conspiracy or some crazy cap circumvention. Keep being jaded.

I agree my active life was ended by my knee injury and I wasn’t a professional athlete. You can’t be mad at Dallas for Bishop being to injured to play. He is not retiring he is LTIR as the system allows him to be.

The story here is a great goalie’s career is over and we should all hope the injury does hamper his life going forward. The petty cap complaints of rival fan bases are not valid as Dallas obviously knew they had a serious issue so they signed Holtby and hoped Bishop got better. They still have a three head monster, but that is more due to Faster than expected development of Oettinger(sp) than anything else.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

What happened? he went from playing one night to career over

 

[Mrfenn92]

Good career and good luck to bishop

 

[dahrougem2]

This dude got lit the f*** up in the AHL. It's clear he probably never would have 100% recovered from all of his injuries, he did just turn 35 after all.

This helps Dallas a lot, too. That said, I'm sure they'd much rather a 100% return-to-form Ben Bishop in their crease instead of him having to retire.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Still better than Cal Petersen.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

 

[varano]

Poor guy. Peak bishop was amazing

 

[varano]

Hate to see a career end due to injury, but I don't hate to see Bishop's career end. Great goalie when he was on, but his Olympic level diving was an embarrassment to goaltending, worse than even Mike Smith. NBA level height and flopping

You're f***ed up man

 

[Point21]

Honestly watching the highlights of his AHL game, half those goals arent even his fault. His own dmen cause 2-3 of them by pushing a guy straight in front of him on 1 and then literally sitting on top of him on 2 more. he did get sniped from the right circle but still. you try not playing hockey for 14 months with a knee injury and play against some pro players in the 2nd best league in NA

 

[Qward]

What happened? he went from playing one night to career over

He got the Lupul deal.

 

[soccermendoza]

glad he got to try it

glad the stars have class in dealing with it


good luck to ben in real life---hockey is over

 

[WingsMJN2965]

I'm kinda torn on this one...

If he can't play do to injury, they would've taken him out during the first 7 goals. He can play, he just can't play the way he used to. So is he really, "LTIR"?