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Uncle Mike’s Sensitivity Class
by IwoCPO on 02/03/09 at 06:26 PM ET
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So you’ve had a hernia. You’ve taken the needle. You’ve played through pain and you know the symptoms, the signs that more is on the way. You express some concern, only to have it laughed off by your coach. I’m not trying to stir anything up here, because that’s certainly not how I roll. But, if I was Tomas Holmstrom, and if I could actually read english, this might piss me off.
Holmstrom played through pain in last spring’s playoffs but said, “I don’t want to do that again. That was no fun. I took injections, and you can’t start taking injections now—it’s February. You can’t take injections the rest of the season.”
I asked coach Mike Babcock for his thoughts, and he sounded far more optimistic about Holmstrom.
“Tommy sat down in my office at the start of the year and thought he wasn’t going to be able to play this year because his knee was so bad, and then he played in Game 1,” Babcock said. “So he’ll be back, and he’ll be playing.”
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