Nobody knew if he’d be back for Game 1 or Game 10 of the regular season, but McDavid beat all expectations, returning at the end of exhibition play. In his few public appearances, McDavid didn’t offer much.Īdrian Vilaca, head strength and conditioning coach for Roberts’ high-performance team, went to Edmonton for that month. A lot of hockey media was working on their tan lines. How did the process stay so quiet? As mentioned, when there was a late-April leak about second opinions, everyone around him worked harder to cut the flow of information. That was, apparently, a huge confidence boost for Connor. I haven’t seen the full piece yet, but included in it is a skate he takes with his father, Brian. It was a summer-long, arduous process, including many eight-to-10 hour days. Mascia is highly regarded - with Bianca Andreescu and Andy Murray among those seeking his expertise. He chose Humber River Hospital for those appointments because that facility has one of the newer machines and Dr. McDavid went for imaging every two or three weeks. “I looked at my calendar, and said, ‘Training camp?’ He said, ‘Yup,’” Hamer adds. Lindsay all but lived with McDavid during this process. “To go a non-surgical route with that severe of an injury, I’ve never done that before,” Lindsay says. Tracy Wilson, who won Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal in ice dancing (a bronze with Rob McCall in 1988), is not shown, but was part of the team. Gary Roberts is shown, as is Lindsay, a highly sought-after chiropractor and soft-tissue specialist, and longtime gymnastics coach Lawson Hamer. The trailer reveals some of the key figures in this groundbreaking endeavour. “Mark actually referred to it as a rehab ‘process’ because it was ever-changing as Connor progressed.” Mark Lindsay, we built our own protocol and tinkered with it along the way,” Jackson said. Since McDavid knew he’d miss one year after an operation, what was the harm in trying something different for a few months in the hope for a better outcome? So the decision was made to see if an aggressive rehab routine could make a difference. Also, “there was the risk of the screws and the grafts changing the way he performed.” ![]() Jackson said McDavid was told that surgery meant he’d miss a season. Not only a bone bruise, but a crack in the front of his tibia.” The back of the knee joint, there’s a lining it’s completely torn…. Anthony Mascia, Radiologist and Director of MRI at Humber River Hospital: “The (Posterior Cruciate Ligament) is cut right in half. The damage is described in the voiceover by Dr. “But if it shows other athletes that you don’t have to miss a full season, that you can attempt something that isn’t normal… he was good with that.” ![]() “He told me, ‘I don’t want it to be a hero piece,’” agent Jeff Jackson said on Tuesday. Now McDavid will reveal the full story of his injury and recovery. (He would receive three different opinions, with Oilers owner Daryl Katz making sure easy travel would never be an issue.) When reports got out that McDavid was searching for a second opinion, further spigots of information were squeezed dry. Throughout the summer, there were rumours the injury was much worse than we understood.
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