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OilersNation Top 25 of 2020: #22 — Connor McDavid’s knee injury was worse than we ever thought
By Zach Laing
Dec 2, 2020, 18:20 ESTUpdated: Dec 2, 2020, 18:45 EST
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Connor McDavid’s devastating knee injury suffered at the end of the 2019-20 season was horrible to see. And as the season ended heading into the next campaign, all the talk was surrounding if he’d be able to lace up his skates to start the 2019-20 season.
While things were kept airtight under wraps and McDavid started the year off with a bang, a January documentary showed just how brutal the injury was.
An article on that, penned by me and published on Jan. 21, detailed just what Connor went through.
Off the top, it was revealed just what happened to McDavid. While we had already know that he suffered a PCL injury when he crashed knee first into the post of the Calgary Flames net, and that the team said surgery wouldn’t be required.
Little did anyone know that the truth was that surgery for a PCL injury suffered like McDavid did should’ve in fact needed him to go under the knife.
Here’s more of what I wrote in the article:
McDavid and his doctors had outlined a rehab schedule throughout the summer and the goal all along was for him to be ready for NHL training camp. He met that goal, and is continuing to shatter expectations scoring at a 127 point pace — a career-high for the superstar.McDavid himself has been quiet about the injury when asked by the media and when he didn’t skate at the BioSteel camp this summer, more questions arose than we had answers to.The fact he and his trainers were able to turn a potentially year-long recovery with surgery that would’ve had long term ramifications on his game into a six-month recovery that has him looking like his old self is unreal.Connor McDavid truly is superhuman and I, for one, cannot wait to watch the documentary Friday night.
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