Sid Summer Rumors.

[forty_three]

I'm curious, is there anger among any of the Pens' fans that Crosby wasn't held out or better diagnosed after the Steckel hit? I'm not sure if the training staff took any heat over this one or not, or if he wasn't symptomatic at all after the Classic and the doctors did what any team doctors would do. I've heard very little about that side of the story. It's good there is no pressure from the top for him to rush back.

I said in a futile argument with Puppy at the swamp that the story is always the same. Some kid gets all the pressure to carry a city, a franchise even the whole game itself and he feels compelled to continue when all logic says he shouldn't. You could just tell the poor kid was primed for exactly what happened. And that was a year before it actually happened.

No saying if the staff, the team, the media or whoever told him to come back, but the clear pressure was on him to do so. And now look at the situation. I feel bad for him. He never asked to be called a saviour, he's just a kid who likes to play a game and has a God-given gift to do so. But the pressure heaped on him pretty much pushed him down one path.

And as they say, those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Lafontaine
Kariya
Lindros (x2)

A great career can still happen. But it would have included at least half or three quarters of this season if he'd just sat out a few extra days after the Steckel hit.

 

[DChero]

It's true, 43. He definitely had a lot of pressure last year, especially because of the pace he was on. He was the favorite for the Art Ross, Lindsey, Hart and Richard. Beyond that, he was also on track for the highest point total since the lockout. Imagine what that team could have done with both him and Malkin playing the rest of the season. Expectations were sky-high.

 

[dash]

It's not good when I see more of Sidney Crosby in Sport Chek commercials than on the ice. Get yourself healthy, Sidney.

 

[evolver115]

I'm curious, is there anger among any of the Pens' fans that Crosby wasn't held out or better diagnosed after the Steckel hit? I'm not sure if the training staff took any heat over this one or not, or if he wasn't symptomatic at all after the Classic and the doctors did what any team doctors would do. I've heard very little about that side of the story. It's good there is no pressure from the top for him to rush back.

Hindsight is 20/20. We don't know what took place following the hit by Steckel. He could have passed a baseline test. Speculating about what happened following the winter classic behind closed doors is pointless.

Crosby will have a huge target on his back when he returns, and that causes me more anticipation than anything else. I have no doubt he will return to the ice this season, I just wonder how long it will take before he's lined up again, and returned to the quiet room.....

 

[loki604]

I think people are being a little too hard on the staff. Obviously, it's easy to say that he had a concussion after he was diagnosed. I'm gonna go out on a limb though and assume that the people in that room knew more about the situation than I did. He could have passed a baseline. It's hard for me to believe that all these people who have a shitload of money invested in this kid just tossed him back out there without a second look. I think it was just an unforunate set of circumstances.

And who's to say Crosby would have been fine after a couple days if the second hit didn't happen? Obviously, it exacerbated the symptoms, but it's not like we can point to the first hit and say "This only caused a minor headache" when it's not abnormal for concussion symptoms to show up later. The Steckel hit might have been enough to keep him out for months regardless.

I don't know...sort of useless speculation to me. One could argue that Sid should be blamed because he's the one feeling the symptoms.

 

[pixburgher66]

I think people are being a little too hard on the staff. Obviously, it's easy to say that he had a concussion after he was diagnosed. I'm gonna go out on a limb though and assume that the people in that room knew more about the situation than I did. He could have passed a baseline. It's hard for me to believe that all these people who have a shitload of money invested in this kid just tossed him back out there without a second look. I think it was just an unforunate set of circumstances.

And who's to say Crosby would have been fine after a couple days if the second hit didn't happen? Obviously, it exacerbated the symptoms, but it's not like we can point to the first hit and say "This only caused a minor headache" when it's not abnormal for concussion symptoms to show up later. The Steckel hit might have been enough to keep him out for months regardless.

I don't know...sort of useless speculation to me. One could argue that Sid should be blamed because he's the one feeling the symptoms.

You could...honestly most of the time when players play concussed it's their own fault for not divulging their symptoms. And you're right, it's easy for us to say he was clearly concussed because we already knew the diagnosis. I just saw some fairly evident signs in a very short clip.