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CHICAGO — At some point, somebody is going to have to pop the question to the Chicago Blackhawks.
And that question has to be, "What year is it here?"
Judging by what we can deduce, this team treats concussions the way they did when Pierre Pilote and Moose Vasko were stars with the Hawks.
Consider the plight of Tsawwassen's Brent Seabrook. He gets hit by Raffi Torres and gets up immediately and continues in the game without missing a shift. He then gets hit again, by Torres curiously enough, and then misses a couple of shifts. Then he returns to the game and plays poorly, constantly looking around to make sure he's not hit again.
Then he says he's good to go in Tuesday night's Game 4 but complains about having an extremely sore ear after the game Sunday. In the same interview, he claims Torres hit him first in the head, or at least that was the first point of contact. On Monday, Joel Quenneville says Seabrook's questionable for the game tonight. Then on Tuesday morning they take him for concussion tests and declare he has an "upper body" injury.
Let's be clear here, if Seabrook felt the first point of contact was his head, there is no way he should have continued in the game until he had spent the 15 minutes in the quiet room with the doctor.
Does the NHL policy not apply to Chicago? Does it not apply to star players? Does it not apply in the playoffs?
Now let's talk about Dave Bolland. Here is a guy who one week ago said after doing two-on-two drills with teammates that he couldn't tell where the rest of the players on the ice were, in an interview with our Jim Jamieson among others from Chicago.
Here, then, is a player who is clearly still having concussion symptoms. A player is supposed to be symptom-free for a minimum of a week before he plays. So the Hawks might be able to argue that he was fine the following day and therefore seven days have passed between then and tonight, but you are really stretching it with that argument.
Consider what might happen. If Bolland begins his usual routine of bothering the Sedin twins with the traditional whacks to the back of their legs before faceoffs, this is not the same Vancouver team as last year. They will not put up with it. They will take a run at Bolland and if somebody connects, what is going to be the outcome?
“We're going to have to treat him like any other player if he's out there,” Henrik Sedin said of Bolland on Monday.
Hopefully nothing will happen and Bolland will come through the rest of the series perfectly healthy and feeling great. But let's be clear here, the risks are significant.
Read more: Risky handling of fuzzy-headed star players could come back to haunt Blackhawks
CHICAGO — At some point, somebody is going to have to pop the question to the Chicago Blackhawks.
And that question has to be, "What year is it here?"
Judging by what we can deduce, this team treats concussions the way they did when Pierre Pilote and Moose Vasko were stars with the Hawks.
Consider the plight of Tsawwassen's Brent Seabrook. He gets hit by Raffi Torres and gets up immediately and continues in the game without missing a shift. He then gets hit again, by Torres curiously enough, and then misses a couple of shifts. Then he returns to the game and plays poorly, constantly looking around to make sure he's not hit again.
Then he says he's good to go in Tuesday night's Game 4 but complains about having an extremely sore ear after the game Sunday. In the same interview, he claims Torres hit him first in the head, or at least that was the first point of contact. On Monday, Joel Quenneville says Seabrook's questionable for the game tonight. Then on Tuesday morning they take him for concussion tests and declare he has an "upper body" injury.
Let's be clear here, if Seabrook felt the first point of contact was his head, there is no way he should have continued in the game until he had spent the 15 minutes in the quiet room with the doctor.
Does the NHL policy not apply to Chicago? Does it not apply to star players? Does it not apply in the playoffs?
Now let's talk about Dave Bolland. Here is a guy who one week ago said after doing two-on-two drills with teammates that he couldn't tell where the rest of the players on the ice were, in an interview with our Jim Jamieson among others from Chicago.
Here, then, is a player who is clearly still having concussion symptoms. A player is supposed to be symptom-free for a minimum of a week before he plays. So the Hawks might be able to argue that he was fine the following day and therefore seven days have passed between then and tonight, but you are really stretching it with that argument.
Consider what might happen. If Bolland begins his usual routine of bothering the Sedin twins with the traditional whacks to the back of their legs before faceoffs, this is not the same Vancouver team as last year. They will not put up with it. They will take a run at Bolland and if somebody connects, what is going to be the outcome?
“We're going to have to treat him like any other player if he's out there,” Henrik Sedin said of Bolland on Monday.
Hopefully nothing will happen and Bolland will come through the rest of the series perfectly healthy and feeling great. But let's be clear here, the risks are significant.
Read more: Risky handling of fuzzy-headed star players could come back to haunt Blackhawks
