Edited Jan. 24, 2022 at 1:02 p.m.
Quoting: TM11
Again for the 100th time a player goes onto LTIR because of an injury- Correct(just making sure you follow)
Doctors understand the injury and give him a timeline to return - you still here
(Hypothetically) if the playoffs are 14 weeks away and his original timeline was lets say 12 when the doctors do their weekly/daily checkups he can say "ouch it still hurts" - you still following
People have beaten timelines for returns and people have exceeded them, all Mantha needs to do is tell the doctors he shoulder is still bugging him and they can't clear him- You still following
if youre a player that wants to win the cup and you know your team can get better player if you milk your injury for another week or two why wouldnt you?????
Please stop being so dense its actually embarrassing haha
lol ok let's have fun with this. I am so dense that it actually allowed me to skip classes when I was in school and it now allows me to not have to work anymore at 40 if I feel like it so I have time to deal with this!
The fact that they didn't want to have Kucherov a few games back before the end of the season and risk having him "rusty" to start the playoffs tells you that maybe they weren't lying and didn't corrupt all the medical staff involved?
https://www.nhl.com/news/nikita-kucherov-leading-tampa-bay-in-playoffs/c-325357766
The Lightning didn't know if Kucherov would make it back for the start of the playoffs. They knew it was a five-month recovery from the hip labrum tear surgery based on history; former Tampa Bay forwards Ryan Callahan and Ben Thomas each had the same surgery. So did active centers Brayden Point and Yanni Gourde.
Five months would have taken Kucherov to the end of May, the start of the second round.
"We kind of had some familiarity with the rehab process, how grueling it can be, the timelines, and also the uncertainty," Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois said.
Kucherov was skating by mid-March and participating in practice drills and morning skates by mid-April. He was cleared to take contact in early May. He recovered quicker than Point, Gourde, Callahan and Thomas.
"Not only did he come back faster," BriseBois said, "it looks like he's playing at the high level that he's accustomed us to over the years."
Of course, all this was a well calculated lie. They even provoked 4 similar surgeries to other players to make sure they'd have a narrative in a few years! Kucherov wouldn't have been back if it wasn't for the playoffs. He didn't even look 100%, as observed by many "dense" people
Oh and just a little research on his injury :
Although the timeline for hip labral tear recovery varies depending on your specific injury, if you require surgery, you should expect about 4 months of one-on-one treatment with your physical therapist and roughly 6-9 months before you feel 100% again
https://therapydiadenver.com/hip-labral-tear-recovery-timeline-treatment-breakdown/#:~:text=Although%20the%20timeline%20for%20hip,before%20you%20feel%20100%25%20again.
Thinking a true competitor like Kucherov would lie/fake to doctors in order to stay on LTIR (while in reality he can't wait to be back playing) is just very naïve. There's a lot of money involved and there's a lot of clauses in NHL contracts, insurance contracts and the CBA so doctors are not going to clear players if it is too risky, insurance companies have their say too. He might have came back earlier if the playoffs started earlier but to risk your health and your body worth millions for regular season games when your team will make the playoffs? Why would he?
Finally, as I said already, you can't just pull this off as you wish. The NHL can investigate you at anytime if they think the LTIR continuation is not legit. Do you think all the 31 other owners will let you do as you like? lol this is the real world we are talking about here. For example, the NHL investigated the Hossa LTIR claim :
https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2020/7/15/21312974/nhl-cba-35year-old-contracts-nhl-contracts-nhl-free-agency
When Marian Hossa was announced as an inductee in the Hockey Hall of Fame, he was already working in Slovakia in a management role, was still on the Coyotes payroll on LTIR, and had been subject to an NHL investigation of Chicago’s initial LTIR claim because the league weren’t convinced the medical reason was legitimate. None of that is the story the NHL wants around a star player good enough to enter the Hall.
I could go on and on with more reality but it looks like it is already way too much for you. Maybe you should try being dense and have no friends too!
Quoting: TM11
Dude Kuch was skating for over a month before and he came back after his excpeted time line
Looking back at this post, it was really stupid lol. It says above "
He was cleared to take contact in early May". Lightning's final RS game was on May 10th.