TRAIKOS: A broken thumb, a broken foot and mangled fingers — hockey players were willing to play through it all
I don’t know how they do it. I really don’t. Brayden Point suffered a “significant” tear to his quad muscle, which is kind of essential for skating — much less walking — at the end of the first round. The recovery time is usually four-to-six months. He was back playing in 32 days, before tearing it again after a couple of games. As Lightning head Jon Cooper said in the aftermath of the Stanley Cup final, “what they put themselves through, it’s mind-boggling.” “I think it just goes to the nature of the individual athlete. Some of them might have similar injuries and not play through it. But the gamers, the ones who have waited their entire life to win a Stanley Cup, some of them will sacrifice anything for it.”
